Word: waterlooed
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...other hand, he undoubtedly would have used it routinely in conjunction with dors, had one of the Waterloo skeletons bitten him, especially one wearing Prussian buttons...
...Waterloo, seated on his great white horse, General Cambronne watched the tide of battle. When the elite of the French army, the Old Guard, smashed itself on British bayonets and was routed; when Napoleon exclaimed, "All is lost!" and fled; and finally, when Blücher's Prussians [supposedly immobilized] appeared on the field of battle-then it was that Cambronne uttered the word...
...young flax and green wheat grow on the plain of Waterloo. In the midst of the battle monuments, which include a cast-iron British lion glowering toward the French frontier, a humble seller of ice-cream cones, Jean Boewet, last week spoke his mind...
Halfway House? Nevertheless, last week the urge toward European federation-or consolidation, or "Western Union," or whatever men might call the first steps toward a United States of Europe-was more vigorous than at any time since Napoleon's dream of unity-by-conquest crashed at Waterloo. Jean Boewet, looking out over Waterloo's rippling wheat, might well be skeptical. What could the statesmen show him besides the skeletons...
...soon a message went out from Communist headquarters to "stop moping." Palmiro Togliatti gave out the official excuse for the defeat: the elections had not been free-the U.S. and the Vatican had interfered. Said Luigi Longo, who commands the Red partisans: "The election was not a Waterloo, but just a lost battle . . . The relations between the government and the people will go through dangerous tensions . . . We will collect the fruits of our labors at some future date...