Word: borge
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September, on behalf of his King, Gort presented the Maltese with the George Cross. The citation: for gallant endurance. Chief Justice Borg accepted the medal and deposited it under a plinth in the main square opposite an old palace of the Grand Masters of the Knights of St. John. Over the plinth the King's Own Malta Regiment took up solemn sentry duty. Stoically the Maltese burrowed into their ancient island. Grimly, for the power and the glory and for Christendom, the island of the Knights fought...
...Wally Borg, the big boy who played with balloons, saved a lot of Bursar's cards by arriving after a half hour of disorganized entertainment. Ann White, singer of "sophisticated songs," sang a few, entitled "Oh Mr. Hoover," "Queenie's Quaint," "Susie Smith," and "It's Too Good for the Average...
Leader of the knights is a German named Dr. Fritz Grobba. He was born Arthur Borg and as a boy was prophetically nicknamed "the Turk," because he looked like one. As a soldier in World War I he was assigned to the Turkish Front, was wounded, and, as a convalescent, fell in love with a Syrian Arab girl. He took her back to the mountains of Bavaria; but her lungs were not fit, and she died. Borg became a Mohammedan, studied Orientology, and eventually was persuaded by General Erich Ludendorff to undertake military intrigues in the Middle East. He disguised...
...teborg Yet'-teh-borg...
...lsingborg Hell'-sing-borg...