Word: pouring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then there is SEXPOFF [Societe pour I'Exportation du Franc Franfais], a subversive movement to which all Amer icans in France automatically belong if they change francs into dollars, thereby reducing De Gaulle's ability to buy up Fort Knox. But sticklers over niceties now ponder whether those who reciprocate the nastiness of De Gaulle, whose character combines le Roi Soleil and De Lawd, are guilty of lese-majeste or sacrilege...
Opening Round. The gathering early last week in Lille, De Gaulle's birthplace, was an assemblage of some 5,000 Gaullist Deputies, prefects, mayors and youth leaders. It represented the opening round of Pompidou's efforts to shape De Gaulle's amorphous Union pour la Nouvelle Republique into a political party sturdy enough to survive the general. That the U.N.R. is not yet that was made all too clear in the parliamentary elections last spring, when the "godillots," or foot soldiers, of the general barely managed a one-seat majority in the National Assembly. The U.N.R...
...Marshall Plan: If the Americans pour so much money our way, it is to keep De Gaulle...
Etiquette & Close Support. In the log he noted that Arnheiter once drank spiked eggnog aboard, and kept a pitcher of brandy in the officers' mess to pour over his peaches and ice cream-a blatant violation of nonalcoholic Navy Regulations. At a ship's party in Guam, the skipper ordered Generous to sit cross-legged at his feet, and had another officer roll up his trouser legs and act as a "pompom girl." He also ordered his officers to give impromptu speeches at dinner on cultural subjects (sample theme: "Opera-Box Etiquette in Milano"). But it was Arnheiter...
...grenades, killing two of the Americans and wounding three. At last the Americans managed to work their way down the hill to cut out a landing zone. The wounded were led down in a line and helilifted to hospitals; food, water and ammunition finally began to pour in. The encouraged troopers seized the initiative and once more tried to assault the heights, crawling over fallen trees, their flamethrowers leading the way. But the flamethrowers proved to be perfect targets-one man was incinerated by a hit on his own canister-and once again relentless fire from the enemy bunkers drove...