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  • "I wouldna suppose a gently reared young lady such as yourself would be familiar wi 'an alternate meaning for the term soixante-neuf?"

    Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

  • He has been engaged in soixante neuf with any slick willy going in the City.

    "Intensely relaxed about people getting filthy rich”. Newmania 2008

  • The 1968 allusion is not superficial: the images these girls are summoning, just as much as the van-smashers did, are pictures of revolution ? the real thing, in its romantic and large-minded soixante-huitard form.

    Student protests: the riot girls Jonathan Jones 2010

  • Indo-Iranica: Melanges Presentes a Georg Morgenstierne a L'occasion de son soixante-dixieme anniversaire.

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • He obviously served in the French Foreign Legion's 69th Regiment, l'Etranger Soixante Neuvième, the Skating 69th, "les soixante neuvième de patinage", the motto of which is, "Skate or Die."

    Bike-Cocky: The Audacity of Hype BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • He was there during the événements du Mai of 1968, a year before he graduated, and though the precise nature of his involvement in the protests remains hazy, ever since then he has advertised his soixante-huitard sympathies with a ubiquitous revolutionary-red scarf, a trademark akin to Frank Lloyd Wright's porkpie hat and Le Corbusier's round spectacles.

    Grading the New Acropolis Filler, Martin 2009

  • The "soixante-huitards" are in charge and they have never believed in democracy.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • The mindset of the liturgical soixante-huitards was that the liturgy would not be in a fixed form any more.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • It translates to quarante-cinq sur soixante in French.

    Oh, for the love of god. Angry Professor 2009

  • It's forty years from 1968 to 2008 but the soixante-huitards are on the brink of their greatest 'accomplishment' in their long campaign to destroy the west from within: to have one of their own as US President.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

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