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Lindbergh

[lind-burg, lin-]

noun

  1. Anne (Spencer) Morrow, 1906–2001, U.S. writer (wife of Charles Augustus Lindbergh).

  2. Charles Augustus, 1902–74, U.S. aviator: made the first solo, nonstop transatlantic flight 1927.



Lindbergh

/ ˈlɪndbɜːɡ, ˈlɪnbɜːɡ /

noun

  1. Charles Augustus. 1902–74, US aviator, who made the first solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic (1927)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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President Charles Lindbergh sets up an "Office of American Absorption," aimed at mainstreaming Jewish kids by sending them into the heartland as field hands and day laborers.

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Allen also appeared in several TV movies, including “Scream, Pretty Peggy” and “The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case,” notably sharing the screen with Bette Davis and Anthony Hopkins, among others.

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Those two incidents would bring charges under the state’s Little Lindbergh Law, which permitted the death penalty in kidnapping with bodily injury.

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Lindbergh loathed politics, but he was the world’s foremost expert on air power, and he felt obliged to correct the common misperception that planes had rendered America suddenly vulnerable to foreign attack.

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The premise of “Plot” is chilling enough: The aviator and isolationist Charles Lindbergh wins the election of 1940, ushering in an era of Nazi appeasement and state-sanctioned anti-Semitism.

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