Word: bari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cruiser and destroyer screen that had led the British battlewagons to Valona kept going northward. Some of them swept the Italian coast as far as Bari, a harbor right on the Achilles' tendon above Italy's heel. Another detachment swept northeast as far as Durazzo, Albania's second-best landing spot. Sir Andrew was on his flagship, had brought his fleet up on a quick run from the African coast, pausing to contact supply ships, after pounding the daylights out of Bardia and points west. While he was busy at Valona his light forces made it clear...
Reports in Balkan capitals indicated that the Axis meant business, that three divisions of crack Nazi troops had arrived in Bari on Italy's heel and were being ferried across to Albania...
...nuisance value of air-raid alarms. Bombs splattered on Buna, south of Moyale in Kenya. From the Dodecanese Islands they bombed Haifa and Tel Aviv in Palestine. The debacle of Dakar did not help the British cause in the Near East. Nightly the Italian short-wave station at Bari urged the Moslem world and particularly Egyptians to "throw off the yoke" of British Imperialism...
...years ago, when the Italian radio station at Bari was engaged daily in shooting revolt-inciting broadcasts at the Arabs in the Near East, British Broadcasting Corp. decided to have a go at the blighters. The first BBC bulletin in Arabic was not too bright: it told how the British had executed twelve prominent Arabs for riotous assembly. Since then BBC has got the hang of the Eastern propaganda game. It now issues The Arabic Listener for fortnightly distribution wherever Arabic is heard by radio...