Word: en
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Time presses," he said. "Every day brings a loss of substance to the nation. Il faut en finir [Let's put an end to it]. Parliament must be dissolved . . . and elections held as soon as possible...
Only here & there, the old gypsy songs were still heard, like the strange Romany version of the French Malbrough s'en -vat-en guerre...
Died. George F. ("Buzz") Beurling, 26, Canada's leading wartime ace (28 Axis planes in 14 fighting days at the defense of Malta), and peacetime flying mercenary; in a plane crash at Urbe airfield, Rome, while en route to fly in Palestine. He won his discharge shortly after D-day in 1944 (said the R.C.A.F.: "Beurling has already done his part. . ."). He found peacetime bush-piloting, stunt flying and insurance selling too tame ("I guess I'll have to go and find another war"), bargained with both Arabs and Jews before taking Haganah's offer...
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Next morning he bounced out of bed for an early breakfast in Kearney. He hustled on to examine an irrigation project en route to Holdredge, addressed a businessmen's lunch, talked to a bumper crowd of 7,500 at the University of Nebraska's Coliseum...