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Word: ouvrier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless Oleg Grabar '50, in this country only two months, contended that the election results really reflect the sentiment of the French worker. The "ouvrier" turning to the head of French wartime resistance has done so, he argues, feeling that Do Gaulle is "the only force who can expel the Communists from France...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: De Gaulle Sweep Result of French Communist 'Fear' | 11/9/1948 | See Source »

...elite's cool hilltop villas overlooking Port-au-Prince, the roar was all too audible. It was le rouleau compresseur -the "steamroller" as Fignolé's Mouvement Ouvrier Paysan was popularly called -trying to intimidate the Assembly into voting for its candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HAITI: The New President | 8/26/1946 | See Source »

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