Alost
Americannoun
noun
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Tough All Over Premier Joseph Stalin could ponder the news that the city fathers of Alost, Belgium had changed the postliberation name of Stalin Avenue back to the original, St. Anna.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Town Hall: Alost Thierry Moertens, who was a renowned master printer of the Netherlands, was born here, and is said to have established in Alost the "very first printing house in Flanders."
From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by Edwards, George Wharton
Like the shell at Alost, it is her luck.
From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May
The ambulance has come back from Alost with two or three wounded and some refugees.
From A Journal of Impressions in Belgium by Sinclair, May
After wandering about some time and threatening Brussels, they seized and plundered Alost, where they established themselves; and they were soon after joined by the Walloon and German troops.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10 by Rudd, John
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