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Word: laager (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: We Shall Be Together | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: We Shall Be Together | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRITISH EMPIRE: We Shall Be Together | 5/27/1940 | See Source »

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