Word: petit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much too long, Cambodian Chief of State Norodom Sihanouk fretted over the addiction of his "petit peuple" to gambling. All his antigambling laws -and regular police crackdowns on Pnompenh's 40-odd illegal houses of chance-had no effect. Cambodians and the equally avid Chinese and Vietnamese residents in the capital continued to gamble their riels away. Profits to the illicit houses were put at about $20 million a year...
...Hywel Bennett), whose idea of a big time is to masquerade as merely retarded. Martin spots an attractive bird named Susan (Hayley Mills) and hatches a plot that eventually gets Dad done in, Susan-ravaged, and Susan's mom cut up like so much kindling. This exercise in Petit Guignol, called Twisted Nerve, has all the suspense of a marshmallow roast, and struggles to make itself more plausible by adding some genetic gibberish about chromosomal damage. The film even suggests that Mongolism and criminal behavior are somehow connected, an unconscionable lapse of taste that has justly outraged the National...
Died. George Lewis, 68, jazz clarinetist of early New Orleans vintage who started strutting to funerals with his $4 clarinet when he was 17, played with such jazz lights of the '20s and '30s as Buddy Petit and Kid Howard, later exported the doleful sound of French Quarter blues to Europe and Japan in a series of boisterously successful tours; of pneumonia; in New Orleans...
...chairs, a chest topped by the N.L.F. standard and a conference table covered with green cloth, surrounded by eight straight-backed chairs. Through the bay windows of the salon, Madame Binh looks out on a small lake with its own island and six elegant white swans. Most of the petit bourgeois neighborhood took the Viet Cong's arrival in stride, but when the N.L.F. hung out its flag, a French patriot across the street indignantly hung one French tricolor from his roof and another from his front gate...
...churn out menus for 160 restaurants per day, has another theory. He blames the shortage of skilled, versatile chefs and the rising cost of food, which have forced restaurants everywhere to shorten their menus. "The less you offer, the more you have to say about it," says Hewes. Mon Petit, a restaurant in Chicago, devotes a three-line historical note to Chateaubriand beneath the dish named after the 19th century French statesman...