Word: arabian
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...salty mixture of American ham and Arabian unbelievable. "The Road to Morocco" is crazier and funnier than either of its two predecessors. It would have been the best comedy of the year but the directors and script writers worked too hard. They combined the dialogue and action so neatly the number of good goes are lost while the audience is howling at the slapstick...
...anything to report overnight. His "log" might also include pertinent communications from the British, Russians or Chinese on any of the Allied land and sea fronts. Or from Army troops and cargo ships in the Atlantic, the North Sea, the Barents Sea, the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Arabian Sea, the Persian Gulf. Or from waypoints in the Army's spreading, global web of airlines...
...business of World War II. He talked with officers, just back from hard-hit Burma, where he had sent them to study at first hand the sore need for air defense. In this same week, he flew across Rajputana to Karachi, India's great northern port on the Arabian Sea. He flew to southern India. He saw the signs of a vast job quickly done, but not yet completed: U.S. planes, pilots, crews, airdrome ground forces in ever-increasing numbers, flowing into India by sea and air, and nesting on scores & scores of airdromes...
Ceylon for Wavell. At the southern nub of India, where the Indian Ocean meets the Bay of Bengal and the Arabian Sea, lies a focal center of General Wavell's task: Britain's island of Ceylon...
...miles off southern India, is a way to invasion of India itself. It could even be a substitute for invasion. With eastern India bottled up, with ships and planes in position on Ceylon to raid even the Indian routes to the vital ports of Bombay and Karachi on the Arabian Sea, Japan could well let India soften and crumble under blockade...