Oom Paul
Americannoun
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The sentence was commuted to 15 years' imprisonment, and after some months, thanks to a world-wide storm of protest and Oom Paul Krugers canniness, quashed.
From Time Magazine Archive
After the Boer War she married a swashbuckling revolutionary named MacBride, who had fought as a major for Oom Paul Kruger.
From Time Magazine Archive
More than any other man since their legendary 19th century Boer chieftain, "Oom Paul" Kruger, Vorster is their accepted leader.
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With a Bible in his pocket and a bandoleer over his shoulder, pudgy James Barry Munnik Hertzog fought the soldiers of Great Britain for three years as one of Oom Paul Kruger's Boer generals.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was believed for some time that the ill-fated Dorothea was fleeing with the fortune of Oom Paul Kruger on board when she was cast ashore.
From The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day by Ralph Delahaye Paine
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