Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battered Eighth Army had been taken over by no less a person than the British Commander in Chief of the Middle East, General Sir Claude John Eyre ("The Auk") Auchinleck. The Auk decided to plug Rommel at the neck of a funnel-the 35-mile gap between El Alamein on the coast and the northern tongue of the steep-sided, marsh-bedded Qattara Depression.* El Alamein is 70 miles from Alexandria...
Though a lull continued in the main battle for Egypt, British ground and air patrols hammered relentlessly at the hooked, 55-mile line west of El Alamein, where Marshal Erwin Rommel's German Africa Corps was stalled within 65 miles of the Alexandria Naval Base...
Around fallen Tobruk the man-made sandstorms, kicked up by tanks scouring the desert, died down in little dunes beside the gridded tracks. Torn barbed wire marked the silent graves of Knightsbridge, El Adem, Acroma. Germany's Erwin Rommel was 200 miles to the east, rolling into Matr...
...petroleum products transported by tankers are being rationed in Central and South America, and the Caribbean. As a fine example of cooperation, I quote below a letter written by President Martinez of El Salvador, which has just crossed my desk...
...learning Spanish in El Paso schools: "They don't teach us very much. We're really a bunch of parrots. ... I have a hunch the way they're doing it is not very good. . . . Speaking of school, it may surprise you to know that it comes from a Greek word meaning, of all things, leisure...