Word: gentile
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...number five, Levy mauled Tiger Ed Gentil in straight sets, 7-5, 6-3. "Jim has been playing great matches all year, so everyone expected it," assistant coach Dave Fish said yesterday. "He just took the guy apart...
...England, dating from the reign of Edward I to the Civil War in the 17th century. They record in continuous, minute detail the costumes, weapons and fashions of those four centuries. Thus they are greatly prized not only by historians but also by rubbing collectors who find a gentil parfit knight and his wimpled lady good company on their walls. William Hawkes, owner of the Boston brasserie, charges customers from $2.50 to $18 to take an impression, depending on size...
...Port Gentil is also the home of what they told me was the "largest plywood factory in the world," the Compagnie Forestiere du Gabon. It's about the size of five football fields, just in floorspace. It has three lakes in which you can hardly see the water, there are so many logs and it has a dozen hangars where the finished product is stored. It takes about fifteen minutes for a twenty-foot log to be stripped of its bark, clamped into the peeling machine, and transformed into a few hundred feet of "veneer," one-quarter to one-eighth...
...Port Gentil, Gabon--The flags were out in Port Gentil, too. The President of Gabon, Albert Bongo, and the President of neighboring Cameroun, el-Amidji, were in town to demonstrate Central African unity and boost their egos. It turned out later that the welcome signs--"Vive la cooperacion Africaine"--and the clean streets weren't enough. The presidents were pissed because the clapping hadn't been enthusiastic enough, and Bongo made vague threats about funds to the local authorities...
...Gabonese who changed my money at the bank (Union Monetaire du Afrique Centrale--a relic of the French colonial administration) laughed as told me the story. It seems that nobody in Port Gentil really cares about the central government of Gabon: Port Gentil is in effect an island at the mouth of southern Gabon's largest river. No highway or railroad connects it with the rest of Gabon and it's pretty much self-sufficient. Logs comes down the river to Port Gentil's sawmills, oil is beginning to be pumped from under Port Gentil, and ships come to take...