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Word: perreux (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...François Fratellini, 72, worldfamed clown of Paris' Medrano arena, leaving his brother Albert as the only survivor of the Three Fratellinis, who kept a generation of Europeans laughing, drew a 1949 boo from the U.S.S.R. ("reactionary . . . bourgeois . . . classical exponents of buffoon games"); of cancer; in Le Perreux, France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 2, 1951 | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

...Communists so angry that Saigon was no longer safe for Nguyen. The French suggested that he transfer his base of operations to Paris. Nguyen settled with his wife and his 20-year-old niece, Ly Phan Van Tey, in a pleasant house in the suburb of Le Perreux...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Nine O'Clock News | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...last week Merchant Nguyen and his family were gathered around the television set in the master's bedroom at Le Perreux waiting for the 9 o'clock news to come on. The doorbell rang. Pretty Ly ran down to answer it. The caller was Student Vo. Ly invited him upstairs to join the family circle. As the show began, the visitor leaped from his chair, whipped out a pistol and screamed at Nguyen: "You are a traitor to your country. You have been supplying the French with rice. You have been condemned by a tribunal of the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Nine O'Clock News | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

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