Word: tains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hohenzollern, 69, eldest son of the late Kaiser Wilhelm II, great-grandson of Britain's Queen Victoria; of a heart ailment; in Hechingen, southwest Germany. During World War I, as commander of the Reich's Fifth Army, he took a decisive beating from Marshal Pétain at Verdun, fled to ignominious exile in Holland. In 1923, he returned to Germany, hoping to succeed his deposed father, instead bowed to Hitler, joined the Nazis. Near the end of World War II, the French found Wilhelm hiding in Austria and contemptuously sent him back to his Hechingen chalet...
...changed in the homestretch. Most meetings were humdrum, badly attended, polite. There were only a few brawls. In Nice, Communists and Gaullists clashed in a gun fight: three Communists were wounded. In Paris, leftists and Gaullists broke up a meeting of followers of former Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain who were campaigning for his release...
Shortly after the polls closed, Petainists learned they had won at least a victory of sorts. President Auriol, timing the announcement so that it would have no effect on the election, let it be known that he had commuted Pétain's life sentence to "permanent confinement" in a hospital; the 95-year-old prisoner, again & again reported near death in recent weeks, will leave the Ile d'Yeu, off Brittany, for the mainland as soon as he can be moved...
...week, the Peking radio wishfully announced that John Chiles had been captured. Recalling the memorable denial of his fellow Missourian, Mark Twain, the colonel, snug in his command post on the east-central front, resisted the temptation to say that the Peking report was "greatly exaggerated." Said he, simply: " Tain't true...
...Doctor Disappeared. On July 10, 1940, in the Casino at Vichy, the deputy from Muret was one of 80 members of the Chambre des Députés who, against an opposition of 569, voted no to giving plenary powers to Pétain. Because of his stand, he was imprisoned for seven months, then sent home to Muret under house surveillance. When the Germans occupied the southern zone in November 1942, Auriol was marked for arrest again. Just two steps ahead of an SS division, Vincent and his wife slipped away from the house at Muret...