Thorez
Americannoun
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In this hard-bitten coal-mining settlement, named after French communist politician Maurice Thorez, a grocery store and several two-story concrete-block apartment buildings clustered around the whitewashed station, sizzling in the heat.
From Washington Post
It was there, and not in a humble graveyard, that French Communists last week buried Maurice Thorez, for three decades their leader.
From Time Magazine Archive
More or less oblivious to these figures, 776 chanting, clapping delegates to the 17th Party Congress in Paris' Latin Quarter heard Party Boss Maurice Thorez describe changes in the party advertised as "revolutionary."
From Time Magazine Archive
"When Thorez arrives on the scene," he told us, "then the real work starts."
From Time Magazine Archive
Slim, tousle-haired Jeannette Vermeersch, wife of ailing Red Boss Maurice Thorez and herself Communist candidate for the National Assembly, spoke with passion for two hours.
From Time Magazine Archive
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