Word: cunningham
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under Sir Andrew Cunningham's second-in-command, acting Vice Admiral Henry Daniel Pridham-Wippell, an expert on big ships, the battle force undertook daring raids into the Strait of Otranto and once far beyond Valona in the Adriatic. It also laid siege to the Italian Dodecanese Islands. Last week the fleet splashed into "bomb alley"-the narrow Sicilian channel dominated by Italian Pantelleria on the one hand and German Stuka forces based on the island of Sicily on the other. But the Axis did not show its double head...
...joined in the next few weeks. If so, the way in which Britain bears herself will rest very largely with a man whom seagoing Britons know as A. B. C. These are the initials of Britain's Commander in Chief in the Mediterranean, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham...
Cordoba Observatory also reports observing the Cunningham comet, which is now of the third magnitude. The two comets are now observable from the Southern Hemisphere. Observers recall no instance in many years when two such brilliant comets were visible at the same time. The Cunningham comet and the Paraskevopoulos comet are separated by thirty degrees...
Considerable controversy has taken place during the vacation regarding the failure of Comet Cunningham to show up more clearly. Professor William H. Barton of New York's Hayden Planetarium has ridiculed it as "a washout and a rank failure...
Leland E. Cunningham, the Observatory astronomer who discovered the comet, has countered with the statement that if has lived up to expectations as far as astronomers are concerned...