Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...still simple for me. We are in trouble. If we don't get help, there may be anarchy in France. The Americans have offered to help all those countries which are willing to help each other. We have accepted. Now let's get ahead. Pour l'amour de Dieu, pas de pagaille! [For God's sake, let's not mess around...
...Signed) "Head Chief Duck Chief, L. Many Bears, Paul Little Walker, Ben Calf Robe [Blackfoot tribe]; Chief Enos Hunter, Chief David Bearspaw, Jacob Twoyoungmen, Councilors Isaac Two-youngmen, John Powderface, Tom Kaquitts [Stoney tribe]; Councilors Judas Hunter, Jonas Rider; David Crowchild, Eddie One Spot, George Runner [Sarcee tribe...
...yachting fans posted as the boats approached. The night the leaders were expected in, hundreds of Hawaiians watched all night from the shore. At 1:52 a.m., amid shouting and honking of horns, the first sail loomed into the searchlight beam that marked the finish line. It was William L. Stewart Jr.'s big yawl Chubasco. But Chubasco, though first to finish, was not the winner. Yachting handicaps are logarithmically calculated by a complicated formula involving length, sail area, etc.; and Chubasco had a small handicap. More than ten hours later, Morgan's Dolphin II sailed past Diamond...
...dismayed Kiwanians sent a three-man committee (including the sheriff, a Kiwanian) out to the winner's one-horse farm to tell him. that he couldn't have the car. The committee was generous about it. It gave 25-year-old Harvey Jones, an ex-G.L, his dollar back. Then the Kiwanians held another drawing, and this time the winner was a well-to-do white dentist...
Bouncing in & out of the mudholes and dodging the landing planes, a sleek car carried a plump, moonfaced man who was trying to watch everything at once. Fred L. Wehran, Teterboro's owner, was fighting to make Teterboro the biggest air freight field in the U.S. (With 1,000 plane movements a day it was already the busiest privately owned airport...