Word: oui
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...facility at digesting official dossiers became legendary and led to his own decision-making shorthand style. "Vu" meant seen but waiting for better arguments. "Soit" meant so be it, but not the best solution. "Oui" meant O.K., but he still had reservations. Only the best dossiers got a "D'accord," meaning that the matter was settled. Pompidou began to enjoy politics with a gusto, and it showed even in his complaints. "I am bombarded with daily problems," he said one day. "I handle dossiers of a burning actuality. Everything is urgent at Matignon [the Premier's office]. But when...
...rest almost evenly divided. Last week the first poll taken after the general's ultimatum turned up results that would dismay a lesser man. A full 40% of the voters had not yet made up their minds, and the rest were still divided. Only 52% intended to vote oui for De Gaulle's program-and therefore for De Gaulle himself...
...most of Briare's 5,140 people, the referendum seems awfully remote. Hardly anyone except Mayor Henri Dabard, a brisk ex-World War I fighter pilot, talks about it in terms of regionalization or senate reform. Instead, Briare will be voting oui or non on De Gaulle, just as it has in the previous four referendums the general has staged since...
...shopkeepers and professional men-said they would either vote no or cast a blank ballot. But Frenchmen have a way of confounding opinion seekers. Pierre Renaud, Briare's pharmacist-tobacconist, perhaps expressed it best. "The French are a funny people. They always complain a lot but usually vote oui." In France, it is the mind that does the talking but the heart that does the voting...
...slight that the outcome is by no means certain. A poll taken a few days before his speech indicated that 52% of the electorate planned either not to cast ballots at all or were undecided how they would vote.Of the remaining 48%, the sampling was almost evenly divided between oui...