Word: rues
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...titles and breathless commuting between capitals. With their support, the Lord Privy Seal has won a degree of respect from the Eurocrats that is rarely granted British officials on the Continent. Round the horseshoe table in the faceless slab that houses Belgium's Foreign Ministry on Brussels' Rue des Quatre Bras, they soon discovered that Heath's affable
...economist by vocation, has made himself one. Even the "high priests," as Britain's negotiators call members of the nine-man Common Market Commission, have ruefully acknowledged error when Heath has challenged an imprecise interpretation of the Treaty of Rome, which is virtually sacred writ on the Rue des Quatre Bras...
...chill rain whipped Rue Desfontaines at noon one day last week as a carload of plainclothes police pulled up at No. 25. The six-story building was barely distinguishable from dozens of other new, white apartment houses in the middle-class European quarter of Algiers-even to the crudely painted SALAN across one wall. But the plainclothesmen had made no mistake. Minutes later, they were inside a three-room, ground-floor apartment, their service revolvers leveled at ex-General Raoul Salan. In the heart of the city where his men boasted of being "as safe as fish...
...informers' tips and details gleaned from a captured S.A.O. leader, special teams of security police in France and Algiers laboriously pieced together Raoul Salan's hour-to-hour movements, decided the best chance of taking him alive would be to catch him on an unguarded visit to Rue Desfontaines, one of many hideouts used by his wife Babiche and daughter (who were also arrested). After patient weeks of waiting, police learned that Salan was going to spend Easter weekend with his family, burst into the apartment before he had even removed...
Regret is the modish literary emotion this spring; rue is back in fashion; hope's hemline has been let down to fit the century's middle age. So it seems, at any rate, on the evidence of two collections of criticism published this week...