Word: frenchmen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gaulle and his ministers proposed to introduce gradually, between now and 1960, a new "heavy franc," equivalent to 100 present francs and roughly close in value (20?) to two of the world's most respected monetary units-the German Deutsche Mark and the Swiss franc. (Frenchmen, said Pinay, will soon get used to dropping two zeros from all their figures...
...category of what Izvestia recently called "paper guarantees which have value perhaps only in history's dustbin." Confederation plays to the sympathies of those who, with vivid memories of two world wars, fear a rearmed and militarized Germany. It is a fear that disturbs not only Poles, Czechs, Frenchmen and Nye Bevan, but also distresses those who, like Konrad Adenauer, want safeguards on German militarism...
...Frenchmen last week examined the results of their two-week electoral spree, they seemed to have the slightly dismayed air of a finger painter surveying his own handiwork. They knew what they were voting against (the old gang), but were now surprised by what they had voted for. Even Charles de Gaulle himself had not wanted the kind of right-wing majority he got. He had insisted on a single-constituency method of voting that was presumed to favor familiar names (principally the Socialists and Radicals) over a grab bag of unknowns styling themselves Gaullists, some of them able, many...
...project got under way six years ago in the kind of comedy of confusion that all Frenchmen relish. A group of five architects, Les Cinq (France's Le Corbusier, Brazil's Lucio Costa, the U.S.'s Walter Gropius, Sweden's Sven Markelius, Italy's Ernesto Rogers), was picked by UNESCO to name Les Trois who would actually design the building. The site was changed twice to placate the jittery guardians of Paris' celebrated skyline. With that act over, the U.S.'s Marcel Breuer, Italy's famed master of concrete, Pier Luigi Nervi...
Visibly moved, Churchill thanked his "old friend and comrade, General de Gaulle," and added that he is "the symbol of the soul of France and the unbreakable integrity of her spirit in adversity." Churchill said all this in English, recalling that in wartime he had often spoken to Frenchmen in their own language, but now did not "wish to subject you to the ordeal of darker and sterner days...