Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...picked by Charles de Gaulle to break the S.A.O. is General Michel Fourquet, 47, a slight, dark-haired air force officer who was famed under the nom de guerre of Colonel Gori in World War II, when he led the Free French Lorraine bomber group. He has been a staunch Gaullist ever since. Fourquet was an air force brigadier in Algeria a year ago at the time of the Generals Revolt. To make clear his loyalty, he painted a huge cross of Lorraine on his personal aircraft. Shuttling busily between Oran and Algiers in the fortnight since he was appointed...
Since both teams boast plenty of offensive punch, it will be a busy day for the defensive units. The varsity may have a slight advantage in this area with Dave Grannis, Charlie Kessler, Henry Field, and Al Straus. This defensive foursome, along with goalie Gil Leaf, has held opponents to four goals or less on five different occasions...
...banquet celebrating the trade agreement. Soviet Ambassador Stepan Chervonenko carried the thaw a bit further by pledging that "all attempts by the imperialists and various reactionaries to seek fissures in the relations between the Soviet Union and China are doomed to failure." But despite the slight show of conciliation on both sides, the Communist world's most fascinating quarrel seemed a long way from being patched...
There is probably a limit to how much can be said with Mauriac's method, but fortunately the author, unlike most avantgardists, feels no compulsion to be deep. His slight, amusing novel, The Dinner Party, merely proved slyly that the host (Carnejoux again) and most of his guests were intricately and sexually involved with one another. The present book proves even less, and is equally charming. Its effect is that of sitting in the sun at an outdoor cafe, slightly muzzy from wine, and imagining idly what is going on in the heads of the passersby...
...Liberators that made it to Ploesti, 53 were shot down; more than one-fifth of the 1,600-man attacking force were killed. Actual damage to the refineries was relatively slight; many were back in operation in a matter of days. Nearly a year was to elapse before U.S. bombers would return to the city-this time at high level...