Word: niles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ethel Waters' richly varied voice Vernon Duke (April in Paris} provides a bright score, including Taking a Chance on Love and a ragtime fantasy concerning Negro sources in Ancient Egypt, My Old Virginia Home on the Nile ("There'll be doin's in them ruins when we come"). Determined to meet the hussy on her own ground, Ethel also swings her big, scarlet-clad body into the most massive cancan of the season. As the hussy, Negro Ballerina Katherine Dunham is a trim and flexible devil's advocate. Her dancers follow her through a series...
...British from driving in at Ethiopia's rear, to back up an Italian drive at the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan's rear. An attack on the Sudan, perhaps starting from Kassala, where Italian forces have long been massed, would probably aim at Khartoum, where the branches of the Nile converge...
...practical purposes, the Nile is Egypt. All Italian efforts would be directed toward taking the river. Once the Nile's three big cities-Alexandria, Cairo, Khartoum-were bagged, and the river crossed, Britain's resistance in North Africa would be near...
...tending south; that Germany would soon play some taking cards in the Mediterranean area. The worst that could happen would be everything at once: invasion of Britain, a Spanish-based blow at Gibraltar, a German-supported Blitzkrieg across Egypt to the Suez Canal, an Italian drive down the Nile, turbulence in the Balkans and a diversion through Turkey, blasts here and there at Perim, Dakar, perhaps at Singapore with the help of the eager little Japanese...
...Eritrea, and, more particularly, over the oasis of Siwa deep in the desert near the Libyan frontier, and at Metemmeh in Ethiopia near the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan border, indicated the British were keeping their air eyes open for signs of any new thrust toward the heart of the Nile Valley...