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
Rochet, handpicked by Thorez, reflects the old man's views.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thorez was living in Moscow at the time, but he was planning to return to Paris after the defeat of the Germans.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their chief crime was that they ran afoul of Maurice Thorez, boss of the French Reds, who went to Russia in 1950 to recuperate from a stroke.
From Time Magazine Archive
"When Thorez arrives on the scene," he told us, "then the real work starts."
From Time Magazine Archive
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