Word: tes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...long last, De Gaulle decided that it was time to rally the nation's support in his own inimitable way. Out went invitations to another of those majestic press conferences in the Elysée Palace. Some 600 journalists showed up in the glittering Salle des Fétes at the appointed hour. As the tall, haughty figure stepped from behind the red curtain to take his seat before them, photographers' flashbulbs popped and reporters' pencils were poised. For an hour, De Gaulle answered questions with his characteristic, measured and misty eloquence. But he dismissed his critics...
...research assistant. Jean Kerr McCarthy (soon to become the wife of Civil Aeronautics Board Member G. Joseph Minetti), the first shipment of 30 packing cases contained mostly press notices of the Senator's storm-tossed career. But the remaining material, with its dossiers on his bétes rouges, would undoubtedly be more incendiary-and possibly libelous. Said an official of the Jesuit university, who assumed that Mrs. McCarthy was screening the files before she packed them: "I'm sure she's using her head...
...noticed from the start that there was unusual activity along the normally deserted rural highway, but it was only after we had covered several kilometers that we realized that the little groups of people who thronged every intersection were calling out to us, "Allez, allez, Mesdemoisellesl Vous êtes les premi...
...pink curtains of the Elysée Palace's Salle des Fêtes parted, and a veteran performer stepped out to play a familiar, lordly role. Jauntily, Charles de Gaulle waved his arm at the 800 newsmen, adjusted his glasses and looked nearsightedly around for the first question. When it proved to be about Algeria, he quipped: "Now there's a question one might call pertinent." He beckoned a few more questions in, snapped "That's enough," and launched into a statement on Algeria. "The whole world is waiting," he said...
Fast Leap. Handsome Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, neutralism's only avowed Communist, walked in and out of conferences and intimate téte-á-tétes. His quarrel with Khrushchev, dating back to 1958, was temporarily dissolved again in a succession of handshakes and a long confabulation behind the grillwork doors of the Soviet Union's Park Avenue mansion.* Old Partisan Fighter Tito was himself living in capitalist splendor on Fifth Avenue, and spent his free time strolling in Central Park or watching the night glitter of Manhattan from the Rainbow Room, 64 stories above Rockefeller Plaza...