Word: frenched
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Over the centuries, the pretty little town of Winchester, Va., has seen more than its share of bloodshed. In the 18th century, George Washington set up his headquarters there during the French and Indian War. In the 19th century, the town reputedly changed hands more than 70 times in the course of the Civil War and served alternately as headquarters for both Confederate General Stonewall Jackson and Union General Philip Sheridan...
...more than 2,000 shows that included numerous galas with such stars as Kelsey Grammer, Lily Tomlin and Denis Leary as hosts; stand-up in clubs all over the city; theatrical presentations; theme shows (relationships, X-rated, urban, gay, women only); and an improvisational tournament in English and French...
Ford joined the group of legislators pushing General Dwight Eisenhower to run for President. Soon Ford was on the delegation with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to monitor the Korean cease-fire. Then he went to Saigon: "I remember the French generals with all their spit and polish giving us a two-hour briefing on how they were going to win the war in Vietnam." It would be President Ford who inherited the final convulsion of that tragic war, made indelible by the pictures of desperate Vietnamese on a rooftop stairs trying to get on a departing helicopter. Ford...
Even as Lloyd's deflected the lawsuits, it hounded its Names to pay the price. Some did. Roy Bromley, a ruined Name, balanced a shotgun on the ledge of open French windows at his London home and shot himself in the chest. Richard Burgoyne shot himself at his home in 1993--his wife and two sons, ages 8 and 11, found his body in their living room. Estimates of Lloyd's-related suicides range from a dozen to more than 30. The gentlemen at Lloyd's acknowledge only seven...
DIED. JACQUELINE AURIOL, 82, French aviator who was the second woman to break the sound barrier, in 1953; in Paris. The daughter-in-law of French President Vincent Auriol, Jacqueline traded parties at the palace for stunt-flying lessons in 1946. Two years after her face was crushed while she was a passenger in a 1949 plane crash, she volunteered to fly the Vampire jet fighter and set a world speed record for female aviators...