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  • Some of the more orthodox radicals, such as Geismar, were convinced that this was the beginning of a revolution that would change French or European society by pulling up the old ways by the roots.

    1968 the Year that Rocked the World Kurlansky, Mark 2004

  • (Geismar, p. 183.) 16 Two striking stories in which the pessimism is the central thesis, and contemporaneous with White Fang, are "The Sun Dog Trail," and "The White Man's Way," both published in a later collection.

    Le Milieu, Le Moment, La Race: Literary Naturalism in Jack London's White Fang 2010

  • Lacy of Dutchtown (Geismar, La.), offensive lineman Brandon Moore of Carver

    Signing Day 2009: LSU, 'Bama share wealth with top classes 2009

  • He is apolitical, careless of his wife—he is unaware of her prewar affair with Geismar—and full of ambition.

    In the World of Night and Fog Allan Massie 2011

  • Seattle-based Alaska Air Group Inc., parent of Alaska Airlines, bought 28,000 gallons of biofuel—at $17 per gallon—from Dynamic Fuels in Geismar, La., a joint venture of Tyson Foods Inc. and synthetic-fuel company Syntroleum Corp.

    Frying the Friendly Skies Jack Nicas 2011

  • Jake Geismar has returned to the ruined city in the summer of 1945, ostensibly to cover the Potsdam Conference, really to search for the woman he loved before the war.

    In the World of Night and Fog Allan Massie 2011

  • Behn is recruited by a journalist named Jake Geismar in Joseph Kanon's 2001 novel of occupied Berlin, "The Good German."

    In the World of Night and Fog Allan Massie 2011

  • •Surprise of the day: Dutchtown (Geismar, La.) running back Eddie Lacy bolstered Alabama's strong class.

    Running backs: Bryce Brown sits on sideline as others sign 2009

  • And Geismar surely knew the Anglo-American journalist John Russell—hero of David Downing's four Berlin novels—in the prewar years and shared a drink with him at the Foreign Press Club, where they could safely join in mockery of Joseph Goebbels's press conferences.

    In the World of Night and Fog Allan Massie 2011

  • For proof, see Dynamic Fuels 'Geismar, La., plant, which will start commercial operations any day now, converting animal fat into drop-in diesel fuel.

    The Real Promise Of Advanced Biofuels Alan Novak 2010

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