Daddah
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Mauritania's pro-French Premier Si Moktar Ould Daddah promptly branded them "traitors," begged France not to judge his country by the doings of a few "wild men."
From Time Magazine Archive
Mauritania's President Moktar Ould Daddah, for instance, had been overthrown by a military coup shortly before he was supposed to leave for Nouakchott Airport to catch a plane to Khartoum.
From Time Magazine Archive
Today, with the help of French grants and loans, Daddah is slowly building a town; using seashells from the coast as a cheaper substitute for the gravel needed to make concrete.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Daddah took over, Mauritania had not even a capital; as part of the old French West Africa, it had been administered from St.-Louis, across the frontier in Senegal.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Oh, did you see his nest?" exclaimed Mary Jane excitedly; "his really truly for sure nest, Daddah?"
From Mary Jane: Her Book by Clara Ingram Judson
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