Word: laager
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...evening settles with the dust of battle, a huge supply convoy comes up, like a great merchant fleet. It forms in close laager-the unprotected vehicles at the core, a ring of armored cars and tanks on the watch outside...
...Comfort To Feel That We Shall Be Together In This Hard And Long Trek, For I Know That You And The Government And The Peoples Of The Union Of South Africa Will Not Weary Under The Heat Of The Day, And That We Shall Make A Strong Laager For All Beside The Water...
...wonderful for Afrikanders suddenly to hear No. 10 Downing St. talking not top-drawer English but such familiar jargon as trek and laager (a camp bulwarked at night by a circle of covered wagons...
...every quarter of the globe Britons buckled down to the task of making their whole Empire a laager against the mechanized raids of Nazidom's 20th-century Hottentots...