Word: aux
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more than 1,000,000 copies. At his peak, Guest earned $128,000 a year. He had many impressive friends; Henry Ford and William Lyon Phelps were among his greatest admirers. He owned two handsome homes-a vast, colonnaded winter residence in Detroit, a summer home in fashionable Pointe aux Barques...
...twin-engine DC3 transport was seized by six rebels today on a flight from Aux Cayes, in the southern part of Haiti, to this capital...
...merchants of the Flea Market last week were once again under pressure from the authorities to move. Their Marché aux Puces has grown into a cluster of six slightly separated markets, a jumble of tumble-down booths and rachitic sheds threaded by wandering, roofed passageways and covering an area of 150 acres. There are about 1,500 shops, employing some 10,000 people, with a yearly turnover estimated at $23 million-one-quarter of it in hard currency...
...mixture of French and Spanish, with a trace of Negro and Indian now and again, they live on the Isle aux Chiens in the Gulf of Mexico. The kids run in packs; no one seems to mind the casual sleeping around, and gossip is the bloodstream of social life. When the men are not fishing or working on their boats, they drink and brawl. As Catholics, they sometimes go to the church at a mainland town and give a welcome of sorts to the priest when he visits the island. But tempers are quick, violence is always near the surface...
Life on Isle aux Chiens flows along endlessly, and she leaves it just where she found it. It is a pity that Author Grau did not wrap up the island in one of her fine short stories that have the knack of checking a perpetual flow and explaining its course...