Word: taining
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...leafless little parks of Vichy seemed even more forlorn than before. The name Pétain might keep for many a touch of magic-a legendary gleam that shone out of the mud of Verdun. But the man Pétain, watery-eyed and old, and his regime, for months largely fictional, seemed indisputably through...
...tain regime had been even briefer than the interim Directory which, during 1795-99, compromised the French Revolution's ideals and opened the control gates to Napoleon. No longer able to maintain the fiction of personal power, Pétain handed over the destinies of the country he professed to love to the hands of a man abhorred throughout France. To Pierre Laval, Adolf Hitler's Auvergne shyster, Pétain gave a dictator's power to rule by decree. For himself, Pétain succeeded in preserving at least the voice to appeal to the wavering...
...Vichy the shift of power meant quick promotions for the violently pro-Nazi; quick resignations for others; for still others, a ratlike scurry across the Mediterranean to the side of Admiral Jean François Darlan, Marshal Pétain's retired colleague General Maxime Weygand refused to reassume his African command and was promptly seized by the Nazis as a hostage for brave old General Henri Honoré Giraud who had got across the Mediterranean to join the Allies...
Vichyite. Pierre Laval's services to Germany have long been obvious, even candid. Marshal Pétain may even imagine that, at bottom, he has been opposed to Adolf Hitler...
...Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, cautious but lifelong royalist sympathizer, remained in Vichy as monarchism's chief hedge against Axis victory...