Word: rues
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...Palace, Zinchenko sat through the long debates beside Molotov and Vishinsky. Whenever he left the Palace, his black portfolio tucked under the arm of his London-made suit, reporters beset him with questions. All evening long, his telephone rang in his small, untidy office at the embassy in the Rue de Crenelle...
...Luck. Bikini left plain people as worried as Pravda, but for different, vaguer reasons. In Paris' rue Cambon, about 25 minutes' walk away from the Big Four Conference Hall, the day after Bikini a long narrow mirror fastened to a wall suddenly fell to the ground without apparent cause. A crowd gathered about the broken glass that boded seven years of bad luck to someone. A frowzy woman murmured: "The atom bomb." The people near her nodded gravely...
Thorez was quick to realize his mistake. At 9:30 on "referendum night," the big four of the French Communist Party were sitting around a rickety wooden table in an office on the top floor of the Humanité building in the rue d'Enghien. Most political experts believed that the results could not safely be predicted until midnight. Came a discreet tap on the door and a youth entered bearing a slip of paper. It was the result of the vote in the Ivry-sur-Seine district, Communist stronghold on the outskirts of the city, Thorez...
...society may apparently be advantaged; the government being the sole judge of this, we will arrive at an economy with our industries nearly all nationalized without a vote of the people-an economic and social revolution of greater proportions than we now realize-one that American labor will rue as much as others...
...looks like a melancholy mechanic, recently returned to Paris after five war years in Manhattan. He works in a cold, dreary atelier on rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, warns visitors to "please keep your hat on, otherwise you will catch cold." One of Léger's happiest memories of the U.S. is the Ringling Bros, circus. Last year he painted two pictures of it which had all the power, but not the heavy complexity, of his usual stuff. They so impressed a Manhattan dealer that he decided to build a show of U.S. artists around them...