Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mercurial people of Alexandria, who had shivered and shaken while Rommel rolled, smiled again and went back to their nightclubs. Those who had fled Alexandria talked of coming back "within a few days." Once more Cairo diffused through its screen of censorship a rosy mist of optimism-the same color as that which preceded the mist-shattering fall of Tobruk...
...East, General Sir Claude John Eyre ("The Auk") Auchinleck. The Auk decided to plug Rommel at the neck of a funnel-the 35-mile gap between El Alamein on the coast and the northern tongue of the steep-sided, marsh-bedded Qattara Depression.* El Alamein is 70 miles from Alexandria...
...began seeing to it that the remainder of the British Army was not allowed to rest and recoup by retiring. In a week he drove the British from Halfàya Pass, from Sidi Barrani, from Matrûh, from Fuka. Only at El Alamein, 70 short miles from Alexandria, were Rommel's men and tanks so exhausted that he had to pause to reform...
Chafing under British rule, a palace clique is suspected of pro-Axis, particularly pro-Italian, sympathies. Parts of the effendi class like to listen to Axis promises of advancement and power. Peasants have been propagandized with wild tales of hoarding and looting by British troops. With bomb blasts shaking Alexandria, the time for anti-British action is ripe...
...stockmarket put on a strong-man act last week. Defying the worst flood of news since the fall of France (when equities nose-dived more than 30 points), the venerable Dow-Jones industrial averages rose $1.09 while the British were fleeing toward Alexandria, 76? more when Auchinleck began to halt the Rommel rush on Friday. Stocks went up $1.04 the day Hitler captured Sevastopol: 67? in the two days it took his African troops to capture Matr...