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Word: contortionist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1942-1942
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While robust Ambassador Admiral William D. Leahy tugged for the U.S., Adolf Hitler threw into the contest Germany's best friend in France, the political contortionist Pierre Laval, a man so abhorred by masses of Frenchmen that no mention of his meeting with Marshal Petain was permitted in Vichyfrench newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Laval v. Leahy | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

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