Word: oui
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vote, taken alphabetically in French, began with a clerk's piping cry "Union Sud-Africaine !" and the gruff reply from that British dominion "Oui...
Straight down the list every nation then answered either "oui" or "yes" until Mr. Matsuoka barked his sharp...
...When our French papers print the news of my reception in New York!" crowed Premier Pierre Laval, pacing up and down his private car, taking quick puffs of his U. S. cigaret, "that will strengthen the friendship between our two countries-mais oui...
Twice the doughty Joffre rallied. To the amazement of physicians, a flush of color mounted to the soldier's chalky cheeks. He even took a little food and mineral water, and replied to questions with an apparently understanding "Oui." But the few who were allowed to visit him refused to be buoyed by hope. They could but quote the doctors: "The Marshal is still fighting. His resistance is astonishing...