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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
As he took the steam-gun, so he now takes what might become the stoker of the steam part of that machine and the aimer of its gun part.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861 by Various
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
He would often say that it was quite a different thing to be "amoureux d'une femme," and to "aimer une femme"—to be in love with, or to love a woman.
From Fragments of an Autobiography by Felix Moscheles
Il faut de l'adresse pour aimer, Pascal says; and I was so quiet, so cheerful, so frankly affectionate with him, that in all those years I am almost sure I never bored him.
From The Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton
Back in Britain, he opted to become a gunner until he discovered that bomb aimers got higher wages.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2022
I firmly believe that Little League pitchers can be much more effective than the current pasture of Dodger aimers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 29, 2021
It was knocked down at the second shot, so it was just as well to put the full price upon them at once, they were such remarkably good aimers at anything.
From Japhet, in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat
It was knocked down at the second shot, so it was just as well to put the full price upon them at once, they were such remarkable good aimers at anything.
From Japhet in Search of a Father by Frederick Marryat
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