Word: neghelli
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...strapping figure in his desert uniform, wearing a monocle. His "Hell on Wheels" offensive bogged down. Finally, by liberal use of poison gas and bombs, he scattered Ras Desta's barefooted Ethiopians, and on horseback at the head of his troops he entered the village of Neghelli, which he described in flamboyant dispatches as "the Southern capital...
...thousand dead in the palace grounds. Promiscuous killing, arson and pillaging went on for days. Total dead: 1,600. Even Mussolini protested, but Graziani, whose wounds were superficial, replied: "Mild measures never retained conquered soil." A few months later he was withdrawn from Ethiopia, created hereditary Marquis of Neghelli by King Victor Emmanuel...
Italy's ex-Field Marshal Rodolfo ("The Lion of Neghelli") Graziani, 69, who served part of a prison term for World War II collaboration with the Nazis, suffered a still further fall from honor. A government decree in Rome stripped him of four military medals for valor awarded between...
...rest of his 19-year sentence for collaboration wiped out by amnesties, ailing, angry-eyed ex-Field Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, 68, stepped out of Rome's Montecelios Military Hospital into a hail of newspaper invective. From his villa east of Rome, the white-maned old "Lion of Neghelli" retorted to a columnist who had attacked him in the daily Il Paese. "I spit on your face a thousand times," he wrote. "You are a disgusting coward and I am sure you are very dirty...
...southern Ethiopian road junction of Neghelli, 300 miles from Addis Ababa, fell at week's end, the British began laying pounds, shillings and pence on the line as to which of the several drives on Addis Ababa would win, place and show...
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