Word: trottoir
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...majority speaks for active resistance groups. The spokesman for resistance is a member called René Ferrière (who for security reasons cannot be photographed or described). Ferrière calls himself "le français du trottoir"-the Frenchman in the street. When he arrived in Algiers, he was as unaware as most Frenchmen of the confusion there. He had expected much: "After two days," he said, "I was completely bewildered, cried all night and intended to return to France the next day." He has stayed long enough to see the leading men of Vichy cleaned...
Puzzled Bostonians saw congregating last week on the triangular trottoir before Trinity Church, which faces on Copley Square opposite the Public Library, a group of silent men and women-folk who had just darted warily across Boylston Street, who seemed to greet one another with ingenuous, unmasked pleasure, but who spoke no words. The attentive noted that these silent folk looked at each other with wide, quick-moving eyes which certainly observed everything, especially the queerly gesticulating fingers of their fellows, fingers that seemed to fly in fluid curves, hooks and angles, fingers that flipped with exact intention. Then...
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