Word: waterloos
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...pooh-poohed the likelihood of a strike until they were comfortably settled in their cabins, hundreds of the Mary's passengers, many of them U.S. tourists, were bundled off the ship and deposited back in London, to stand holding wilted flowers and half-empty champagne bottles in Waterloo Station. "I'm going to see my Congressman about all this as soon as I get back home," growled one vacationing New Jerseyite. Cunard got busy placing its passengers on transatlantic planes, filling up all scheduled flights and chartering special planes when necessary...
...Olde Housing. Deputy Gazier told only half of a sad story that helps explain France's divisions, frustrations and sullen hatred. More than 2,000,000 French families live in houses built before the Battle of Waterloo: ¶ 175,000 families live in houses built under the reign of Francis...
...Waterloo...
Napoleon wrote between 50,000 and 70,000 letters in this way during the 15 years of his dictatorship. Thirty-nine years after Waterloo, Napoleon III (youngest son of the first Emperor's brother, Louis Bonaparte) ordered "official" (i.e., edited and censored) publication of the correspondence-and landed his chosen editors with a nagging headache. Far from illustrating "the grand personality" of "our august predecessor," the letters displayed Napoleon's true personality with embarrassing frankness. Whole sections of them had to be omitted as "illegible," so that the imperial legend should not be tarnished by evidence of ruthless...
That spot of brilliance seemed to dim the fresh lake and vermilion on the adjoining Waterloo Bridge. Constable snorted to a friend: "Turner has been here and fired a gun!" Two days later, Turner deftly turned the impromptu daub into a red buoy that can still be seen floating on his grey...