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  • 41Landing at Saidor — Part of World War II, Pacific War Troops of t …

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  • 42Las Vegas — /lahs vay geuhs/ 1. a city in SE Nevada. 164,674. 2. a city in central New Mexico. 14,322. * * * City (pop., 2000: 478,434), southeastern Nevada, U.S. It is famous for its luxury hotels, casinos, and nightclubs, located in the downtown area known …

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  • 43Lithuania — Lithuanic /lith ooh an ik/, adj., n. /lith ooh ay nee euh/, n. a republic in N Europe, on the Baltic: an independent state 1918 40; annexed by the Soviet Union 1940; regained independence 1991. 3,635,932; 25,174 sq. mi. (65,200 sq. km). Cap.:… …

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  • 44World War II — the war between the Axis and the Allies, beginning on September 1, 1939, with the German invasion of Poland and ending with the surrender of Germany on May 8, 1945, and of Japan on August 14, 1945. Abbr.: WWII * * * or Second World War (1939–45)… …

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  • 45Franklin, Benjamin — born Jan. 17, 1706, Boston, Mass. died April 17, 1790, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. American statesman, scientist, philosopher, and publisher. He was apprenticed at age 12 to his brother, a local printer. He taught himself to write effectively, and in …

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  • 46bad — Synonyms and related words: OK, abhorrent, abominable, abomination, ace high, ailing, alarming, amiss, apocalyptic, arrant, atrocious, atrocity, bad for, bad smelling, badly, baleful, bane, baneful, bang up, barfy, base, befoulment, below par,… …

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  • 47down — Synonyms and related words: COD, Vandyke, actively, adown, ailing, air, alkali flat, all up with, alluvial plain, anthill, backset, bad, barrow, basin, beard, beat, beaten, beaver, bedfast, bedridden, below, below par, best, bested, blow down,… …

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  • 48sick — Synonyms and related words: abnormal, affected, afflicted, ailing, airsick, amiss, annoyed, appalled, bad, below par, bent, bereft of reason, bizarre, blase, bored, brainsick, burdened, carsick, chagrined, comfortless, confined, crackbrained,… …

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  • 49sadness — sadness, depression, melancholy, melancholia, dejection, gloom, blues, dumps are comparable when they mean a state of mind when one is unhappy or low spirited or an attack of low spirits. Sadness is the general term; apart from the context it… …

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