Word: gibraltarism
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...Italians said she had limped into Gibraltar at reduced speed after having been gravely damaged by a torpedo...
...calmly (said one survivor) "as though going down a gangway at Gibraltar," the crew took up their lifebelts and filed above. On a ladder a rating said to an officer: "Damned hard luck on the old lady, sir." The officer patted the sailor's shoulder...
...ships carried supplies from Boston, routed through the Mediterranean by way of Bermuda and Gibraltar, Italians sources said...
...Noel Mason MacFarlane, a pukka sahib, the archetype of British sporting soldiery, a man who had stuck pigs in India, raced autos in the Alps, shot grouse in Scotland, worn the kilt in Budapest, and in between times been military attache in Berlin (1937-39) and Army Commander at Gibraltar (1940-41). He thought the Reds were a bit of all right. His report...
British authorities claimed last week that 100,000,000 people in Europe listened to BBC broadcasts of the Morse dit-dit-dit-dar, the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, various versions of V propaganda. In Gibraltar British Tommies with paint pots sloshed Vs on all cars passing into Spain. The campaign spread to South America, where Brazilian students plastered Vs on the walls of an Italian newspaper building...