Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Grand Electors of France turned out last week to elect a new Council of the Republic, the government's upper house. Some came from Paris and the big cities. But the great majority were prosperous, pipe-smoking farmers. In leather gaiters and stained, shapeless hats, and smelling of the land in which they were rooted, they represented the traditional backbone of France...
...Gaulle's party and other conservative groups would have a majority in the upper house. If he used this strength to paralyze crucial government legislation, De Gaulle would probably be able to wreck Henri Queuille's shaky government...
Thanks to the Guardia, Somoza can boast: "I know every man in Nicaragua and what he represents." Thanks also to the Guardia, for twelve years he has owned and operated his little country (pop. 1,108,800), with its tiny upper class and sandaled proletariat...
General De Gaulle "looks like the only salvation for Freshmen who are afraid," two former French students, one of them president of the Harvard French Club, agreed here last night. Their statement was offered as a comment on the marked swing to the Right in the recent upper chamber elections in France...
Earlier in the term, the Student Council approved the proposal. At that time, Dean Bender explained that "the punishment does not fit the crime," and added that since attendance is not taken in upper class courses probation does not mean too much...