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Spaniards are referring to Franco as "Esteban" these days; when you ask them why, they look around furtively and explain gleefully: "Que se marche este bandido!" ["May this bandit get the hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 8, 1946 | 4/8/1946 | See Source »

...German questioners in Gestapo headquarters. Their leader aid: 'We give you one last chance, Captain Er, Captain Um, Captain Désiré.' I aw a woman with gold teeth and dirty hair who came towards me asking: Qu'est-ce que tu désires, Désiré?' 'I refuse,' I shouted. 'I will not go with that name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Toward Morning | 1/14/1946 | See Source »

When U.S. General Tony McAuliffe answered "Nuts!" to the German demand that he surrender Bastogne, he stopped no,, only the Germans but the French press. Politely, the French newspapers wrestled with a suitable translation, finally came up with Vous n'étes que des vieilles noix-"You are nothing but old nuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Nuts | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

...lifeboat edged out of the gloom. Its frightened crew climbed ashore at Matane, Que. Able Seaman Sidney Langmead told what had happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada at War: THE SERVICES: U-Boats in the River? | 11/13/1944 | See Source »

Cracked an indignant French diplomat in Washington: "Mon Dieu, que faut-il faire pour leur plaire? Se prostituer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Se Prostituer? | 10/16/1944 | See Source »

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