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douceur

noun as in present

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In France, however, she had more lasting success as a singer, with hits including “Les Vendanges de l’Amour,” “Que Calor la Vida,” “Viens Viens” and covers of Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind,” Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence” and the Rolling Stones’s “Paint It Black,” retitled “Marie Douceur, Marie Colère.”

And in August 2011, when 58-year-old Renee-Nicole Douceur, winter manager at the station, suffered a stroke, NSF deemed it unsafe to send in a rescue plane.

Despite pleas from family members, a petition to the White House, and numerous media stories, Douceur remained at the South Pole for 2 months until she finally caught a ride out on a scheduled cargo plane.

Nonetheless, an otherwise rollicking chapter on the Frankfurt Book Fair gradually saddens into an elegy for the douceur de vivre before the Revolution.

Inspired by the notes of pink grapefruit and lemon in Gosset’s new Petite Douceur Rosé, Urraca crafted a limited-edition profiterole: at its core, a lime-yuzu cremeux blended with a strawberry confit and finished off with a light rose-flavored cream.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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