Word: colonist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...book is also a sprawling monument to Author Murray's career as president of Oklahoma's constitutional convention, speaker of its first state legislature. Congressman in Washington, D.C.. successful lawyer in Indian territory, where he married the niece of a Chickasaw governor, negotiator of Indian treaties, colonist in South America (he headed a colony in Bolivia), governor (1931-35) of Oklahoma...
Again in 1660 The Grand Assembly resolved to have a college, like Harvard for the education of ministers. It was called "The Colledge", but didn't exist till William and his wife Mary granted a charter in 1693. An English official answered the colonist's plea with "Damn your souls--make tobacco", but the charter went through...
Realistic measures of defense called for elimination of telecommunications with the Axis countries, closer passport inspection, control of Axis-owned businesses (on which Argentina and Chile submitted a reservation); and stricter surveillance of local Nazi groups, which openly brag of loyalty to the Fatherland even though a German colonist "wears a sombrero and spurs as wide as wagon wheels...
...Sandy-haired Hans Hauser could have been married half a dozen times. But Hans was too happy-go-lucky for his own good, according to Froelich, who was able to give up the business of teaching clumsy Americans how to do "snow plows" and "stem turns," and become a colonist himself. This season he and his rich wife lived in a hunting lodge a mile away from...
...real colonist is almost always an agrarian. The Latin and Slavic peoples in New England are filtering back into the rural districts and on to the lands...