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...terms like le whisky and le weekend, the government banned 350 offenders from official usage and urged the French to drop them from everyday currency as well. In place of the Anglicisms, the government proposed French substitutes. Flashback, for example, can be replaced by retrospectif; hit parade will succumb to pal-mares (literally, prize list); one-man show will be rendered spectacle solo; tanker will become navire citerne...
...institutions resisted the temptation to follow national trends or to succumb to pressures, political, financial and Federal for complete coeducation total merger," she said. "They have thus given us an especially great opportunity for educational innovation...
...about 40 of them hanging on the walls of my loft," he recalls. "Some of my friends saw them, liked them and even bought them. That's when I first got the idea of selling neon fixtures for use in the home." It took Partner Romanoff longer to succumb to neon, but now he too is an incurable addict. Recently he suffered through "this terrible old Ida Lupino movie because every nightclub they went into had these fantastic neon signs...
However if any offensive linemen succumb to injuries this season Mclnally Howard Keene and ends will be running pass patterns for exercise while Restic's mans talented quarterback eat the football Restic calls the lack of depth in the offensive line his biggest problem" Standout tackle Monte Bowens is the only returning starter on the offensive interior line. Fortunately, last year's second string linemen saw a lot of action under the Restic system of giving under classmen a lot of playing time. The system made for some unhappy seniors, but now Restic is congratulating himself on his foresight...
...American public the question of how representative their convention actually was. They discarded the sole challenge to their master scheme in a resounding defeat, voting down by a 910 to 434 margin the Steiger Amendment for reapportioning delegate distribution at the 1976 Convention. They vowed not to succumb to quota representation: at auspicious moments, they passed before the cameras a sampling of youth, women and minorities to prove their "Open Door" policy, but they failed to provide for enlargement of those groups four years hence. In doing so, the Republicans seemed to say that in 1976, and for the forseeable...