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Word: tain (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been not only Europe's cultural capital, but its favorite battlefield and biggest graveyard. Living men have twice seen France smashed as a nation-in 1870 and in 1940. The French defeat of 1870 has long been associated with the name of Marshal Bazaine. Marshal Pétain has become almost a synonym for the collapse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Bazaine and Retain | 7/26/1943 | See Source »

...French people have had enough of personal power, autocracy and tyranny. . . . They want a rejuvenated republic, better framed and more democratic, with more social equality. . . . [They] are not sacrificing their lives ... for generals and admirals who have fired on the Allies and served Pétain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: The Fourth Republic | 6/21/1943 | See Source »

...stars. It is the minor actors too. Taken together, they give a picture of American life that is varied, sometimes silly, sometimes worse than silly, but that is less silly than people pretend and is very seldom as silly or as dull or as misleading as Pétain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Hollyword v. Goebbels | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...alone with her in the forest, was hastily mar ried to her by a friendly preacher. Almost immediately they were separated, for en try into bristling Fort Pitt was not for everyone. Inside the fort, Salathiel met the commandant Captain Ecuyer, became his valet and bodyguard. From the Cap tain he learned discipline, borrowed such books as Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy, Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, Richard son's Clarissa Harlowe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mighty Installment | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

...great respect, Giraud differed from Pétain: Giraud hated Germans long before they raped France, and he is forever exhorting his troops to kill Germans. And, like all good Frenchmen of whatever political stripe, he loves France. While in a Nazi prison, he laid down his hope for la patrie in a letter to his seven children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Retreat from Greatness | 3/29/1943 | See Source »

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