Word: bab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...paratroops leap-frogged behind their extended positions trying to disrupt their communication lines. The Luftwaffe dominated the grey, dripping skies. There were disquieting reports that the Axis, pouring in airborne reinforcements from Italy, had gained numerical superiority along the fighting front. On the heights overlooking Mateur and Madjez-el Bab, Anderson's lightly armed advanced troops grimly hung on and waited for heavier troops to crawl...
...defense boasts Foster at center half with Steve Glidden and either Apthorp or Bill Cook flanking him. In Dick Forster, Polly has found an exceptionally powerful, two-foot kicker, who in time is expected to equal the feats of Olie Taylor and Bab Harrison who became first-string Varsity fullbacks this fall. Hugh Hadley, another long-distance booter, pairs with Forster...
...strong clutch on the Red Sea's mouth and western coast. In order further to dominate that sea, through which British supplies and reinforcements were still running last week, the Italians were preparing to hop on to Britain's Perim Island, in the narrow Straits of Bab el Mandeb. An all-out dive-bombing assault would make Perim practically untenable. This week the Italians staged their first big bombing attack on the island...
...Italy has for such a land is to threaten Britain's hold on the southern entrance to the Red Sea and the route to the Orient, a hold otherwise confined to the port of Aden across the Gulf and the island of Perim in the strait called Bab el Mandeb ("gate to the mandate"). To defend Somaliland, Britain had the Camel Corps, originally formed by British Marine officers to hunt Mohammed bin Abdullah, the "Mad Mullah" who for 20 years (1900-20) carried on a religious revolt until R. A. F. bombing planes drove him into Ethiopia. Chief gain...
...announcement affected the actions of a dozen French warships, including at least three battleships still with the British at Alexandria. The attitudes of the commanders of these French ships remained unknown, but farther east, French surrender of Djibouti to the Italians gravely endangered British control of the Strait of Bab el Mandeb, far gate...