Word: tention
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...charge came first from L'Express, the pro-Mendes-France daily, in an attempt to discredit the Algerian policy of Premier Edgar Faure. Then the government itself picked up the charge-arid played it back with an anti-American overtone in an obvious effort to divert at tention from the flop of its Algerian policy. A communique from the Ministry of the Interior (headed by Faure himself) said that the gendarme could be court-martialed and the cameraman charged with bribery. The communique did not mention the cameraman's nationality, described him only as "a representative...
...this gunin' fer Joe all th' time, it don't seem right to me. Alln't you fellers puttin' all your 'tention on th' smoke an' fergettin' bout th' fire...