Word: derek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...News Chronicle's reliable Derek Patmore wrote from Istanbul that the Lebanese capital and chief port, Beirut, had begun to rival Cairo as an Allied base. "The huge concentrations of United Nations troops in Syria and Lebanon seem to confirm the general feeling that attacks on the Greek Islands and the Dodecanese will take place in the near future." Besides "extremely important units of British and Imperial troops," there was in this theater a Greek army "fully equipped with the latest weapons and totaling 30,000 men. Supplies are pouring in from Egypt. It can now be revealed that...
Cheerfully eleven-year-old Sonia Bech told of the hazardous hours on a tiny raft with her mother and nine-year-old brother Derek. Twice she had been washed off by the sea but both times she had been rescued. "When we laid down our heads," she said, "we were in the water. When we tried to sit up we were blown down again by the wind. . . . When we found the warship we all stood up and cheered and shouted for the good old British Navy. The Navy men helped us up a rope ladder -first an arm and then...
...faint. He was a man. . . . The cannibals charged again, but Butch dipped a stick of dynamite at them and that held them back for a while. There was only one more round of ammunition apiece, and it was a thousand miles of green hell to the nearest civilization. Derek muttered. 'They won't make mincemeat out of me while I'm still alive. Cheerio, men.' He walked into the other room and there was a single shot. The cannibals charged again, and then a barrage of shots came from the other end of the clearing. 'Hurray,' shouted Brandy. 'Help...