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Word: oui (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...little girls repeated after the teacher: "Do not answer Ja, say Oui, ma soeur. . . . Voici la table. Voilà le mur. Void le crucifix. This is the table. That is the wall. Here is the crucifix...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The First Class | 12/25/1944 | See Source »

...Frankly, OUI...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1943 | 8/2/1943 | See Source »

...fiercely: ". . . It was not the tanks and bombers. . . . It was the way the Germans used them. They used them in a new way. In a war of movement!" "Ah, mon vieux, comme vous etes naif!" said an old French general. "A war of movement across the dry Polish plains, oui! But through the Ardennes, through the Dutch floods, through the Belgian defenses, through the Maginot . . . c'est ridicule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: In Lieu of Zola | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

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