Word: vieux
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...French are beginning to call him le Vieux-the Old One. At 76, Charles de Gaulle moves a little ponderously. But le Vieux refers as much to political vulnerability as it does to venerability. During the Middle Eastern crisis, De Gaulle was exposed as an emperor without clothes. Suddenly it turned out to be unimportant for anybody to take his advice, or even listen politely. His condemnation of Israel has left much of French public opinion outraged and many in his own party dissatisfied. Last week, by putting more barriers in the way of British entry into the Common Market...
...Vieux argued that Britain's membership would create "an Atlantic situation," or a Market "under U.S. predominance." He said that the renewed application of the British should be rejected until they become more European in their outlook and policies, "until they are more like we are." Despite these imperious words, West German Foreign Minister Willy Brandt succeeded in bringing the issue of British membership before the Market's Council of Ministers in Brussels. There French Foreign Minister Couve de Murville produced the novel argument that an enlarged Market might seem threatening to the Communist nations and thus cause...
Badly framed laws have allowed new highways to slash senselessly through residential areas, uprooting thousands of families and needlessly destroying neighborhoods. In New Orleans, an expressway now planned over local protest will bring the roar of rushing traffic to the historic Vieux Carre. In New York City, a 20-year-old controversy still swirls about a proposed Lower Manhattan expressway while the decaying area through which it is to run decays further because no one wants to risk improving properties that may yet be destroyed...
...vieux mattre; Before a word of dialogue was spoken, we knew (even those of us who separate our visceral and esthetic perceptions, and neatly categorize them like fruit flies or faeces) yes, we knew unfailingly just what this beautiful film would be like...
...Xavier had Italy. Pierre had Germany. And I, gentlemen-I always had France." Even at the lowest ebb of the war, a Free French officer who was poring over a map of occupied Europe heard the general's high, familiar voice at his shoulder: "Wasting your time, mon vieux. You'd do better studying a map of the world." Another officer in London asked De Gaulle to be more generous in sharing intelligence reports of the enemy's plans. "See here!" barked the general. "To win, it is not enough to know what the enemy wants. Above...