Word: ionian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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During his 54 years of life, Author Hearn seldom lacked inspiration of one sort or another: he managed to quarrel with just about everybody he met, for long periods slept with a loaded pistol under his pillow. Born in the Ionian Islands in 1850 of mixed Anglo-Irish and Maltese stock, he emigrated to the U.S. at 19, slept in Manhattan doorways and vacant lots, finally went West to Cincinnati in 1871 and got a job on the Enquirer. Color-conscious Cincinnati readers liked his lush accounts of the seamier side of Queen City life, but were rocked...
...counterattack. Field Marshal von Weichs was evidently determined to hold the outer ring of Balkan defenses and exact a good price for any Allied landings on the mainland. Other ring positions recently secured by the Germans: strategic Corfu at the entrance to the Adriatic, Cephalonia farther south in the Ionian Sea, and Albania. On the Dalmatian coast, above Albania, "General Tito's" Partisans lost the port of Spalato last week, but they are making the iron ring uncomfortably hot to hold...
...escutcheon the fair marks of Taranto, Matapan and last year's Libyan show. He has kept Tobruk alive with a steady stream of supplies. His most famous signal at sea, which he flashed as he steamed toward Taranto: "I intend to behave offensively in the Ionian...
...Corinth Canal provides a short cut from the Ionian Sea to the Aegean Sea. Through it, saving 130 miles around the treacherous, blacked-out Peloponnesos, the Axis has recently sent important supplies for the Russian campaign...
...Battle of the Ionian...