Word: ah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Presumably AH Landon, who was reported to have refused a Cabinet post unless the President rejected the Third Term...
...present holdings in eastern Africa. Britain got sole sway over Egypt (which both Rome and Napoleon held in their day) in 1882 when France and Italy declined to share the expense of pacifying the country after it revolted against the extravagant grandson, Ismail, of able old Mehemet AH Pasha, who whipped the Turks. Toward these well-guarded objectives Mussolini reconnoitred but moved scarcely at all last week. He did launch an armored column to take Djibouti, French terminal of the railroad from the Red Sea to Addis Ababa, and bombed Aden, British control port opposite Djibouti. His object apparently...
...fixing to buy a ranch with the $10,000 he had earned in seven minutes. "Bring on Henry Armstrong next," drawled the Sweetwater Swatter, itching to get his anvil-strong hands on the welterweight (147 Ib.) champion. "In 30 rounds, Armstrong couldn't knock out the boy ah knocked out in three, so ah ought to do all right with Henry," he added...
...given soon by L'Alliance Frncaise. And from every corner, from each table, from almost every double-chinned throat came the meticulous machine-gun syllables of France. There was good and bad French, Parisian and Cambridge French, plus a minor torrent of Berlitz, Quebec, Linguaphone, Minneapolis, and Sornbonne French. Ah, thought Vag, just like those immortal days in Paris--he heard a particularly grating bit of Brooklynese patois and corrected himself-or rather those hours at the American Express office. Altogether, he felt sure that La Marseillaise should have been heard faintly in the background...