Word: parise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Outside Paris, terrorists sabotaged the railway at Salbris, fired gasoline depots near Le Havre and in six different places in the south of France. In Toulouse, 300,000 gallons of gasoline burned up. Near Marseille, firemen fought a gas fire that was to last all week.
All police leaves were canceled, and for the first time since the Communist riots of 1947, the army was called out to guard "places of strategic importance." In metropolitan Paris the police in one day rounded up 3,000 Algerians and commandeered the Vélodrome d'Hiver, the...
Rearing up over the low-lying Tokyo skyline last week was a new steel contraption that to Westerners had a familiar shape. Called the Tokyo TV Tower, it looks like Paris' famed Eiffel Tower, and when a 250-ft. antenna is added to it this fall, it will rise...
Stopping Paris traffic with her slim figure and undiminished stage presence. Old-time Operatic Soprano Mary Garden concealed all but the younger half of her 81 years. Stirring from retirement in Aberdeen, the Scots prima donna was reportedly in the city on business: to sign a contract for a motion...
The fancy prizes that looked so fine before the camera have too often grown tarnished between victory and delivery; e.g., the all-expenses-paid vacation in Europe provided no hotel room, only a flight to Paris and home the next day. There was evidence that contestants on certain shows had...