Word: palmorston
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...Palmorston Style. Fed up with the past humiliations in Iran and Egypt, the British were putting on a fine old-fashioned Palmerstonian display of Empire. R.A.F. fighters buzzed up and down the 750-mile-long camel tracks running into Saudi Arabia, searching out reinforcements bound for Turki. Jeep-borne Oman levies roamed everywhere, terrifying camel caravans. From a 40-foot-high Beau Geste-like tower of mud-brick reinforced with palm logs-containing storerooms for food, water and ammunition, and slotted for rifles-a young British major named Peter MacDonald was happily running the show...
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