Word: gallipolis
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Split at Midriff. Khalil is a soldier turned politician. A onetime brigadier in the Sudan Defense Force under the British, he fought at Gallipoli in World War I, in the western desert and Italy in World War II. As a politician, he presides over a constituency that is one of the world's most complex. The Sudan is nearly four times as large (967,500 sq.mi.) as Texas, has a population (10.2 million) less than that of the New York metropolitan area. From Wadi Haifa, astride the Nile at the Egyptian border, the Sudan stretches south 1,250 miles...
...reunion with veterans of Britain's disastrous World War 1 Gallipoli invasion, Earl Attlee, 74, onetime Laborite Prime Minister and himself a British army survivor of Gallipoli, paid more than tribute to a former political adversary, ex-Tory Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill, 82. Churchill is generally still held accountable by historians as the master misstrategist behind the Gallipoli debacle (205,000 British casualties). Attlee was determined to vindicate onetime First Lord of the Admiralty Churchill: "If we had had Sir Winston instead of [Prime Minister] Earl Asquith and [Prime Minister David] Lloyd George...
Saddened but stubbornly loyal, 15,000 British golf fans turned out on the Lindrick course at Worksop, near Sheffield, last week to watch their Ryder Cup pros wind up what promised to be a Gallipoli of golf. After a devastating afternoon of Scotch Foursomes (in which partners alternate strokes on the same ball), Britain's best were behind 3 to 1. The visiting Americans were favored to breeze through all of the eight remaining singles matches...
...golden Aegean beaches, and troop-laden helicopters scissored down out of azure Mediterranean skies. Then 8,000 U.S. Marines who had come 6,000 miles from Virginia in four weeks, landed in Turkey last week to grab a stake of ground just north of the historic shores of Gallipoli. The tactical problem set for NATO's Operation Deep Water was to assume that Turkey had been invaded from the north, and in 40 days' fighting, the Turkish NATO forces had been theoretically forced back more than 60 miles to the Gallipoli Peninsula. Covered by planes and ships...
...accordance with the Corps' new antinuclear tactics of "separation and concentration." Flying in, they had glimpsed the Trojan plains where 3,000 years earlier Achilles fought Hector for mastery over the straits dividing Europe from Asia. Just across the bay from their landing point were the cliffs of Gallipoli Peninsula, where in World War I the British, French, Australian and New Zealand invaders suffered 250,000 casualties trying valorously but vainly to capture Constantinople and open a supply route to their Czarist allies. Within the game's allotted three days, the Marines seized the road leading...