Word: vives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...vive la différence, said at least one Russian male last week. "My age and conservative mental makeup compelled me to think up to the last few days that we men were the rulers of man's mind and the salt of the earth," said Novelist Mikhail (And Quiet Flows the Don) Sholokhov. "And what do we see now? A woman in space! Say what you will, this is incomprehensible. It contradicts all my set conceptions of the world and its possibilities...
...blackboard was chalked: "Vive Miss France!" But as the French press put it, there were "perturbations" at the Bel-Air Lycée for Girls in Angouleme, near Limoges, and the perturbation was all because Math Teacher Muguette Fabris, 22, had gone to Bordeaux to practice a little solid (89-50-90*) geometry. The judges took one look at Muguette in a swimsuit and-zut! She was Miss France. Back at the Lycée, the principal had no head for figures, made Muguette promise to forgo makeup at school and to come to work by bus instead...
...rock crumbled in a dense cloud of smoke and dust. A mile and a half down in the Alpine depths, tunnel workers from Italy and from France scrambled over the settling debris to meet in grimy embrace and exchange flags, helmets and undershirts. They cheered hoarsely: "Viva la Francia!" "Vive I'Italic!" Waterfalls & Soft Rock. It was the breakthrough for the world's longest vehicular tunnel, stretching 7.2 miles* beneath the icy, forbidding Alpine massif to join Courmayeur, Italy, and Chamonix, France, the famed ski resort. A magnificent feat of engineering, the French and Italian sections...
...change is evidence of the increasing self-confidence of the F.L.N. younger generation, who feel that they no longer need the respectable, moderate "front'' of Ferhat Abbas. They resented the fact that when Algeria's Moslems spontaneously demonstrated for independence last December, their rallying cry was "Vive Ferhat Abbas!'' This totally unexpected triumph of the F.L.N.'s "grand old man" alarmed the younger militants, who had installed him as Premier only to gain his fagade of respectability. If Abbas returned to Algiers as head of state, they argued, his personal popularity might prevent fulfillment...
...same nice-to-see-you smile and handshake that had served his brother Jack so well in the 1960 campaign wilds of West Virginia. Bobby enthusiastically applauded a tribal stilts dancer, was offered another village's prized possession-a bottle of Johnnie Walker Red Label. Cried Bobby: "Vive la Côte d'lvoire!" Replied a tribesman in perfect English: "Very good...