Word: frenchness
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...Texas courts, which would then most likely set a new execution date. The intricacacies of the controversy, however, reportedly elude Penry. Prison officials said that upon learning his life had been spared a second time, Penry asked if he could still eat his "last" meal--cheeseburgers and French fries...
...originally viewed with suspicion in some quarters as a French project to oppose the hegemony of the U.S. in NATO. But since then it got the British on board. Tony Blair is a big advocate of this force, and the British are obviously very close to the U.S. Germany is the biggest force provider, followed by France and Britain. There's some opposition in Britain from Conservative party 'Euroskeptics' who see this as another erosion of British sovereignty, but there are very few grounds for this argument since the force is, like NATO, comprised of entirely separate national contingents which...
...course, not all E.U. members are in NATO, and not all NATO members are in the E.U. Denmark and Austria have opted out of the new defense initiative. But even the French, who are outside of the NATO command structure, have emphasized that this force would not take any action opposed by NATO. Does NATO have right of first refusal to get involved in specific crises? That's the way it seemed to come out when the new initiative was presented this week. The participating countries are committed to NATO, and are going to use NATO planners to do their...
...elegant Monroe, who had been Minister to France, and his beautiful wife Elizabeth, a New Yorker, gave the White House a French cast in decoration and furniture. Though some of the furnishings were dispersed and lost in subsequent Administrations, the idea that the White House was best as decorated by the Monroes was resurrected by Jacqueline Kennedy in 1961. The Monroe idea reigns today...
...wife of Benjamin, would jeopardize the White House with an element war could not: grandeur. She loved the White House but wanted more space. She rallied Cabinet officers and engineers to produce a plan for massive buildings attached to the existing White House and an enclosed quadrangle in the French Neoclassical mode. She had public and official support but not that of House Speaker Thomas B. Reed. Miffed by a postal appointment, he refused to let the authorization bill come to the floor. All that is left are preposterous drawings...