Word: alsatian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign events within a 50-mile radius. In Neudorf, he entered one of the Roman Catholic schools that the left proposes to nationalize-taking care to be photographed under a crucifix. At another town, Chirac nibbled on a piece of truffled sausage encased in piecrust, an Alsatian specialty, before warning his listeners that the left was a "sorcerer's apprentice...
...elaborate diorama showing the burning of Moscow. But Maelzel's star attraction was a hoax: a chess automaton nicknamed the Turk that took on all comers-and was every bit as talented as the human player cleverly concealed within it. That role was filled by William Schlumberger, an Alsatian hunchback who, until hitching up with Maelzel, was the second best chess player at the Café de la Régence in Paris. The machine might have conned its way across the country save for a brilliant detective named Edgar Allan Poe, who exposed the secret in 1836. Maelzel...
...formed a phalanx on an adjoining athletic field and began chanting for "black power." Police, using bullhorns, warned them to disperse. The students answered with clenched-fist salutes and a barrage of rocks and bottles. Tear gas disrupted the demonstration, but not for long. Then the police turned fierce Alsatian dogs loose on the students. The police waded in after them for what one observer contemptuously called "a first-class Kaffir-bashing." When night fell, the students were joined by workmen returning from their jobs in Cape...
...Kanfer calls Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee the "only literary work" in which the bicycle's glory is sung [April 9]. Albert Schweitzer, born just 100 years ago, was eight or nine when the rumor spread in his Alsatian village that a "speed-runner" was at the village inn. Schweitzer says in his charming childhood memoirs: "Today's young people can't imagine what the coming of the bicycle meant to us. A hitherto undreamed of possibility of getting into nature was opened before us, and I made full and joyous...
Security was all but impenetrable last week at the luxurious Penina Golf Hotel in the seaside resort of Alvor on southern Portugal's Algarve coast. A 600-man police and army cordon ringed the building; commandos with Alsatian dogs on short leads guarded the surrounding twin golf courses; armed troops set up checkpoints on all roads within a 20-mile radius; a navy frigate lay anchored in the bay, and frogmen patrolled the water. Within this bastion, delegates from the three major liberation movements met for six days with Portuguese government delegates and worked out a plan...