Word: oui
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...face turned ashen, the bride's fists clenched. M. Doinel was wearing his baggy Buchenwald uniform, black-&-white stripes with a red triangle numbered 78633. Slowly he read the service. . . . "Will you take for your husband. . . . Will you take for your wife. . . ." Slowly they answered. . . . "Ja. . . Oui...
...Oui, materials were hard to get. But one managed. There were ribbons, lace, paper, straw, net-over-wire, pastel felt, cloth, solid feathers. And shapes showed gay imagination. There were tricorns, buckets, bowls, halos and even one with an alcove for Madame to fill as she fancied...
...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...
...Frankly, OUI...
...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...