Word: nord
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Vote for Peace!" Last month the commission began a purge of provincial Communist leaders, particularly in the coal-mining north, where the heresy of "Titoism" has been gaining ground. When Armand Moche, president of the miners' union of the Nord Department, was dismissed, he shouted, "You are leading France to ruin!" and stalked out, slamming the door...
...pronounce all that, read the umlauts as in Norwegian, and bite the "i" and short "a" sounds and the terminal "ahs" as in Nord-Deutsch...
Married. James A. Michener, 41, 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist (Tales of the South Pacific); and Vange A. Nord, 26, publicity writer; in Manhattan...
Delegates to the Western Union conference of Foreign Ministers at The Hague last week got a small practical demonstration of the need for Western Union. On the Étoile du Nord, the international luxury express which makes a daily Paris-Brussels-Amsterdam run, they had to show their passports, railroad tickets or cash 16 times to 16 different officials in the three countries. At a Dutch border town the train was held up for an hour while inspectors made sure, the passengers had not bought too many U.S. cigarettes during the 20-minute stop at Brussels...
...Paris, which has not had a princess of its own to smile at for some time now, Britain's Elizabeth was (as they say in French) a mad success. Four thousand people jammed the epically dirty Gare du Nord when the London-Paris night ferry train puffed in. A Dunkirk railway worker had hung a sign on the locomotive: "Zezette" (French for Lizzie...