Word: nile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain's soldiers stood in their classic and indomitable position: with their backs against the wall. West of Suez there was no other place to make a stand. Behind them was Cairo, capital of Egypt; the delta of the Nile, a great plain as large as Vermont, crisscrossed with irrigation canals; Alexandria, last major British naval base in the eastern Mediterranean. All that stood between Rommel and Suez was General Sir Harold (Rupert Leofric George) Alexander's Eighth Army. If it failed, then, in the words of one U.S. Army official last week, "God help...
...bearable." Before his eyes swam Beatonesque visions: "Prince Mohammed Ali, heir to the throne and cousin of King Farouk I ... in his tarboosh, morning coat and sponge-bag trousers, with an enormous emerald on one finger." . . . Madam Fouad El Manasterly at soirées in her garden overlooking the Nile. "The glitter of the Turkish standard candelabra and the white-draped musicians in the boats below the window create a romantic effect. They say that Moses was hidden in the bulrushes here...
...Relativities. When Rommel made his first tentative attack, the rains in Ethiopia had washed the red-brown silt down from the hills, swelling the sluggish Nile. The hottest desert days were over...
...When Otis Town left the Tennessee hills for the Delta, "the richest farming land since the discovery of the Nile Valley" was selling at 90? an acre. Town put every cent he had into 600 acres. Then he cleared the tremendous cane that towered 20 feet above him and walked the cotton seed into the reeking-rich earth. The next spring two Negroes, a man and a woman, shared his cabin, his labor, his prospects. They cleared and planted twice the past year's acreage. Settling up in the fall, Otis skinned the Negro so unmercifully that he drew...
People leaped to the conclusion that the upheaval spelled new anguish for the British. They thought Makram might join anti-Nahas groups. They thought of an Egyptian convulsion right at the moment Rommel was eating his way toward the Nile...