Word: nousing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...under discussion and will interrupt a Cabinet minister to stress details he thinks are being overlooked. When he feels a speaker is talking too long or to no point, De Gaulle drums his fingers irritably on the table. When he has heard enough, he declares crisply, "Eh bien, messieurs, nous avons terminé." Barracks Vocabulary. Lunch (appetizer, meat or fish, salad, dessert, two wines) starts at 1 o'clock and is usually a working meal, attended by Elysée aides and outside guests...
There were always a few hostess gowns around, worn by the outré set, but in recent months, the revolution in chez nous apparel has spread to split-level suburbia and high-level city apartments. Although the one-piece version looks like a bathrobe and feels like a bathrobe, it is not a bathrobe because it 1 ) is not worn over a nightgown, and 2) costs more. But the price of hostess gowns is dropping as swiftly as their popularity is rising; last week Gimbels in Manhattan showed models costing less than $15 in its store windows. Fast catching...
Down came the blinds, darkening the classroom as 25 students raptly watched the bluish TV screen before them. The show was their French teacher, a precise little woman saying "Nous lirons la leçon encore," and for half an hour the youngsters eagerly tried to reproduce her impeccable accent. So last week a topflight white teacher drilled Negro students in a small high school in rural South Carolina...
...Gaulle now takes matters in hand: loftily and nobly he begins singing the Marseillaise. The Western team joins in ..."contre nous de la tyrannic....Auxarmes citoyens. Formez vos bataillons. Marchons, Marchons..." Khrushchev is drowned out and silenced. De Gaulle sniffs the air proudly. Kennedy continues...
...only because he invested so much time and intelligence in land speculation"). This expansionist drive brought on the Civil War as well as World War II, says Williams, and has been checked now only because Russia has nuclear bombs. Other sins of the greedy guys: the policy of "laissez nous faire," carried on in the name of individualism but really to line the pockets of financial buccaneers, and "Corporation Capitalism," which has given the U.S. an "industrial gentry" unmotivated by "socialism of the heart...