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Word: valerans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1964-1964
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Usage:

...Buttons is a child's war between the young students of two small French towns, Valeran and Longeverne. They fight in a deserted quarry with sticks and sling shots, yet their exhaustive preparations for battle and ingeniously inventive tactics are uncomfortably familiar to contemporary minds. But lessons for the world are properly understated by director Robert and, instead, he guides his actors at uproarious play. One side attacks with a borrowed old nag (utterly frightening from a child's point of view) and wins that battle in a rout. Later the other side borrows a tractor as the escalation continues...

Author: By Paul Williams, | Title: The War of the Buttons | 4/25/1964 | See Source »

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