Weygand
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Conditions in the area have been exceptionally hot, and another day of extreme heat was forecast for Saturday, said Dan Weygand, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Medford, Ore.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 30, 2022
Although the politician and former French prime minister Pierre Laval was committed to collaboration, other figures at Vichy, such as Gen. Maxime Weygand, were believed to be more favorable to the Allies.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 17, 2021
But Reynaud, crazily, chose to bring into the cabinet the defeatist generals Pétain and Weygand, and he was under the crucial influence of his equally defeatist lover, Madame de Portes.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 13, 2018
The new French commander, Maxime Weygand, transferred soldiers from the Maginot Line, but could muster only 43 infantry divisions to face the Third Reich’s 104.
From Time ● Jul. 21, 2017
The need of English had been met in part by the elder Muehlenberg and his successors, Weygand and Hauseal, in Trinity Church, doubtless also by Frederick Muehlenberg in the Swamp Church.
From The Lutherans of New York Their Story and Their Problems by Wenner, George
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