Word: tains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still yearning for the kind of life he saw Europeans leading in Algeria, Krim joined the Chantiers de Jeunesse, Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain's equivalent of the old U.S. Civilian Conservation Corps; from there he went into an infantry regiment, where he became a chairborne corporal. It was in the melting pot of the French army that he began to acquire a basic sense of frustration. "Wherever I turned," he recalls bitterly, "there was injustice. There were always differences between us, the Moslem inferiors, and the superior Europeans. I was a clerk and I had to fill...
Still stern to the memory of his onetime commander, General Charles de Gaulle refused a request from the widow of Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, wavering head of the fascist puppet Vichy government during World War II, asking that her husband's remains, now on the lonely Ile d'Yeu, be transferred to a graveyard at Verdun, site of his great 1916 defensive victory over the Germans...
...During a patrol with the famed "Black Commandos" he was struck, as if by revelation, with the solution to the Algerian War. Poking into a ramshackle hut during a search for concealed arms, he saw on the wall three photographs: one of the late Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain, one of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, and one of De Gaulle. The Moslem owner of the hut, asked why he kept those particular pictures, replied: "Because they are chiefs." To Delbecque the deeper significance of this statement was obvious: bring De Gaulle back to power and the Algerian...
...that they "ain't had so much fun since the hogs et Little Willie." or "ain't laughed so much since Grandma got caught in the wash wringer." With each new generation, psychiatrists attempt to explain the meaning of such jokes in relation to their era. Cer tain only is the fact that Little Willie...
...moral finger at them. "Why should the French have a bad conscience?" demanded Soustelle. "It's not France that must use armed troops to put children into school." Fiery right-wing Deputy Jean-Louis Tixier-Vignancour, who was once barred from office for collaborating with Pétain, went even further: "Are you going to have us judged by people from Little Rock, by slavers from Yemen, by our enemies from behind the Iron Curtain...