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Word: passeront (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1944-1944
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...expected the U.S. Government to grant De Gaulle & Co. outright recognition. But Algiers was optimistic, hopeful that le grand Charlie and Franklin Roosevelt would get along far better in Washington, than they did last year in Casablanca. Cracked a foreign diplomat in expectant Washington: "Us ne passeront pas devant le maire* but there will be a common-law marriage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Neither Maid nor Wife | 7/10/1944 | See Source »

...houses, half of Triquet's men and all his officers were either killed or wounded. Said Triquet: "The only safe place is our objective." He, two sergeants and 15 men made it. There they dug in and Triquet repeated Nivelle's famed order at Verdun, "Ils ne passeront pas" (they shall not pass). Through successive German attacks the handful held their ground. Next morning the Canadians poured through and stormed on to Ortona...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: HEROES: Three Men of Valor | 3/20/1944 | See Source »

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