Word: picquet
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...sorry," Samuel Johnson once rumbled, "I have not learned to play at cards. It is very useful in life; it generates kindness, and consolidates society." Presumably he was thinking of picquet or bezique, rather than an all-night killer session at seven-card stud, but Johnson's point has been true for centuries. Yet no player today could guess, from his impersonal deck with its stiff, bright kings, queens and jacks, mass-produced and slippery for fast dealing, how complicated the ancestry of the modern playing card was-or how various and fine in craftsmanship. Discovering this...
There U.S. warplanes had a good haul. They sank 41 enemy ships and damaged 28 more (almost 200,000 tons). The toll included two entire convoys, a Katori-class light cruiser and the dismantled French cruiser Lamotte-Picquet. But the most damaging blows were the sinkings of tankers bearing oil from the Indies and strikes against oil refineries at Saigon. The enemy put up what aircraft he could to defend his supposedly sheltered outposts; 112 were shot down...
...battle was fought in the Gulf of Siam. Thai claimed that three French warships and probably the 7,880-ton French cruiser Lamotte-Picquet were sunk. Thai losses: none. The French claimed the sinking of one or two 2,000-ton Thai coast-guard ships and two, perhaps three, torpedo boats. French losses: none...
...Ranh Bay off the coast of Indo-China, French warships were maneuvering one bright morning last week. The submarines Phénix and L'Espoir submerged to make a sham attack on the flagship of the Far Eastern Fleet, the cruiser Lamotte-Picquet. After a half-hour L'Espoir knifed to the surface, but no one saw the Phénix, and probably no one ever will. For a day and a half planes and warships crisscrossed the sea, searching in vain for the crippled vessel. And then the Ministry of the Navy belatedly informed the families...
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