Word: oui
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well have been. But it saved the game, and National Hockey League President Clarence Campbell had to admit that there is no rule against it. There soon will be, he promised, while French Canadian Goalie Faille still played the bewildered innocent: "Fasten? Unfasten? How you say it? Mais oui, c'est tres fascinating...
Even in their own ranks, Hearstlings managed to avoid sameness. Dorothy Kilgallen reported that "not once did the Prince look at his bride"; Bob Considine wrote that it was "only once." When the time came for the couple's responses, "both replied 'Oui' firmly . . . Miss Kelly in husky, throaty sincerity," according to the Herald Trib. But in the Times, "each assented with a virtually inaudible 'Oui.' " In any case, the ceremony lasted just 20 minutes (Considine), 16 minutes (Kilgallen), 40 minutes (Post), 15 "emotion-laden" minutes (New York News...
...religious ceremony next day, Grace was "close to tears" in the Post, but for the U.P., "uncontrolled tears coursed down [her] cheeks." How did she make her responses this time? "Je veux (I will)," said the U.P. "Oui," said the Post. "Oui, Monseigneur," said the Times. "Oui, je veux," said the Herald Trib. Finessed Newshen Kilgallen: "[It was] barely audible...
This was bad enough, but it was not all. French authorities rigged the Arab elections in favor of stooges whom the Arabs call beni oui ouis (yes, yes men). Mendes was more candid about this than any top French politician had ever been before. "We discredited democratic procedures. The ballot is counterfeit. The ballot boxes are stuffed. The winners are picked by the government...
...duty at General Charles de Gaulle's London headquarters during the Battle of Britain, he dropped a note in the general's Suggestion Box. The note told how Free French press relations could be improved. De Gaulle sent for Laguerre and asked if he could improve them. "Oui, mon general," said Laguerre. Thus he became press officer for the Free French and, when the war ended, head of the press department of the new French government. His immediate superior and last boss before he joined our staff early in 1946 was Minister of Information André Malraux...