Word: tremblays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From iron-grey clouds a bitterly cold rain fell on 5,324 athletes from six nations. The Communist daily L'Humanite had invited them to Paris' Le Tremblay race track to spread international good will (and Communist Party publicity). The good will had failed to materialize...
...race, the Russians had been briefed on the peculiar French starting technique. Because undisciplined French athletes cannot be made to line up quietly, the ideal French starter is one who can surprise his runners while they are all bending down to tie shoelaces. The pudgy little starter at Le Tremblay last week was one of the best. Casually, as great globules of water dripped from his mustache, he engaged the girls in a long, rambling conversation about the weather...
...thin, worried Gabriel Tremblay, 39, it was a sorry Labor Day. A onetime Montreal restaurant owner, he had been working at the Canadian Vickers, Ltd. shipyard in East Montreal. There he made better wages than ever before, but heavy medical expenses and old business debts made saving all but impossible. Now that he had been laid off, he did not know what to do. Said he: "The soldiers are coming back . . . and they have to have jobs. But us, we have to live, too." His pretty wife Marianne had it all figured out: unless Gabriel found a job soon, they...
Religious Nationalist. Father Joseph was baptized François (Leclerc du Tremblay). At the age of eight, he begged to be sent away to boarding school "on the ground that he was being spoilt by his mother, qui en voulut faire un délicat." At ten he spoke Greek and Latin fluently, discussed "the deepest problems of metaphysics and religion" with a friend, aged twelve. When François's father died, the boy felt "a haunting sense of the vanity, the transience, the hopeless precariousness of merely human happiness. . . . While the religious wars lasted, France...