Word: oui
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...members usually point. Less proud five years olds use the international nose pressed against counter technique. Student patronage fluctuates with exams, football games, and holidays while house-wives place orders all year. Some connaisseurs request dishes that send the proprietress scurrying for advice to Monsieur Marty who usually replies, "Oui, c'est possible...
...evening in Rome, Mendès got cornered at a cocktail party by fellow-traveling Socialist Pietro Nenni who objected to West German rearmament. Mendès retorted: "German rearmament has already been started in Eastern Germany." "But that is only police," said Nenni. "Ah, oui," snapped Mendès-France. "A police force that uses armored cars and airplanes to hunt down criminals...
...hours PeroÓn talked to her in his faltering French. Then he said oui, Andreée could make the movie. That, however, was only "preliminary" approval. An Argentine commission will have to supervise the film. And all PeroÓn's appearances will probably have to be spliced in from newsreels or official films...
...Abominable!" snorted one woman. A Frenchman, who had once lived in New Orleans, agreed. But a milkman, stopping his horse-drawn wagon at the curb, said with a shrug, ''Ben oui. We got along without them before, we can get along without them...
...countries, not related to you by blood or alliance, qualified to give precise information about you. 4) Are you suffering from any serious troubles? (Political? Mental? Epidemic?). 5) May I consider that during the course of the past twelve months none among you has drunk alcoholic liquor to excess? Oui? Non?" In case some might think him anti-American, Daninos explained: "I am nothing but a damned individualist who would not seek the tiniest louse on the head of the United States if they would not try to find one on mine...