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Johnson was a 21-year-old bomb aimer on the 1943 mission, codenamed Operation Chastise, by the Royal Air Force’s famed 617 Squadron.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2022
"Vous avez un coeur fait pour aimer, fait pour etre reconnaissant."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Condorcet says of Diderot, "faisant toujours aimer la verité, même lorsqu'entraîné par son imagination il avait le malheur de la méconnaître."
From The Eve of the French Revolution by Lowell, Edward J. (Edward Jackson)
In the first case the unaccented, in the second the accented form has prevailed—Modern French parle, parler; aime, aimer.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 1 "Franciscans" to "French Language" by Various
Il animoit les uns, il piequoit les autres d'honneur, il se faisoit aimer de tous, et ne s'épargnoit lui-même en rien.
From The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) by Warburton, George
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