Word: trops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...living either by fishing or by working at the nearby naval torpedo factory. About the only vehicles that drove through its shabby streets, until about five years ago, were the creaking buses that carried the laborers back and forth to work. Then, for no apparent reason at all, "St. Trop" (pronounced Sen-tro) suddenly became chic. Today the boom is at a height: Saint-Tropez has become the favorite Riviera resort of France's fashionable eccentric...
...issue was most clearly drawn in the case of Ohio-born Private Albert L. Trop, who escaped from an Army stockade in French Morocco in 1944, went over the hill, was picked up the next day, convicted of desertion and sent out with a dishonorable discharge. In 1952 he applied for a passport and was refused on grounds, clearly supported by a congressional act, that his desertion had cost him his citizenship. Chief Justice Earl Warren wrote the majority opinion, with Justices Hugo Black, William O. Douglas and Charles Evans Whittaker joining. William Brennan concurred. Felix Frankfurter, Harold Burton...
Burgum stressed that the charges were so drawn as to be unsusceptible of defense, that the evidence was irrelevant, that some of the witnesses were "a trop of paid informers." He generally defied the faculty committee...