Word: bon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bon, where their last stand was to be made. Some managed to flee across the water in barges and cockleshells...
Mind and Body. Years ago Wisconsin's stubby, pragmatic bon vivant, Philosopher Max Otto, stood on the bank of the upper Mississippi one Sunday sunset to ask himself again what force it was that prevented the technology of the modern world from being used to the greater happiness of the plain man. Afternoon darkened into evening ; the shining silver of the river blurred in the darkness; lights began to appear in the village...
Both points were taken yesterday after they had been in Axis possession less than 24 hours and a threat that the southwest sector of the British line at Bou Arada would be isolated was removed at least for the moment. Bon Arada is 20 miles south of Medjez-El-Bab. Fort McGregor and Tally-Ho Corner, a road junction, lies in between...
...Bombers from Malta had eased the way for the Allies with a crushing raid on the airport near Tunis which wrecked or crippled 38 planes, and the Rome radio reported a tangle between Italian and Allied fighter planes over Cape Bon, 145 miles, inside Tunisia from Algeria. This indicated Allied fighters were operating from new forward bases in Algeria or that long-range fighters from Malta had joined the fray...
...present the Freshmen are seated with Johnny Pierce, cox; Schultz Wood, stroke; Bim Chanler, 7; Stew Clark, 6; Gus Merwin, 5; Bob Stone, 4; Bon White, 3; Charley Brown, 2; and Jack Potter...