Word: verdillac
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...Some Beaujolais bottlings have been reduced by $2, to $4.99. A 1982 Domaine de Cheval Blanc, a pleasant white Bordeaux, costs under $4. La Vieille Ferme '81, a satisfying red or white from the Rhone Valley, is now $3.49. Burka's store in Washington offers a 1981 Verdillac Bordeaux Superior for $3.49 a bottle, and a free wine rack goes with each case...
...days before, the Pact that ended the five-week Syrian War had been merely initialed by Vichy's Brigadier General Joseph Antoine Sylvain Râoul de Verdillac, who went to Acre in Palestine for the armistice talks* held in the officers' mess of the Sidney Smith Barracks. When diminutive General de Verdillac uncapped his pen for the initialing, all the lights in the room suddenly fused out. So the war that started in the early morning moonlight of June 8 ended in the light of a dispatch rider's motorbike head lamp which was brought...
...Verdillac went to Acre instead of General Dentz, because he is more pro-British, less anti-De Gaulle than his superior. With Lieut. General Sir Henry Maitland ("Jumbo") Wilson at the H-shaped conference table was General Georges Catroux, Free French commander of the campaign, condemned to death by Vichy. The sight of him might have caused General Dentz pain. General de Verdillac, however, lost no time in putting things on a cozy footing. He leaned toward an Australian sentry, winked, made a throat-slitting gesture with one hand and whispered: "Les Baches...
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