Word: polyglots
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Britain still watched Egypt anxiously, but last week she felt reassured. There had been some bad moments. When Rommel took Matruh, the back streets of polyglot Cairo chattered with rumors, hissed with opportunistic plans. Toasts to the Axis rang behind closed doors. Rich Italian matrons of Alexandria loaded themselves with cakes and bonbons, piled into cars and rushed off to suburban Mex, which they understood had already been entered by triumphant troops of II Duce. Mex was full of grinning Australians. The matrons jettisoned their gifts and went home...
...married a girl whose family has lived in Palestine for generations, and now he speaks most of the polyglot dialects of the Near East well enough to make himself understood, from Adrianople to Addis-Ababa-is so fluent in several that he can often wangle his way into news spots that might otherwise be closed...
Marching at a dogged, fixed pace of 105 steps per minute, which became known to us as the "Stilwell Stride," the iron-haired, grim, skeleton-thin General walked into India with tommygun on shoulder at the head of a polyglot party of weary, hungry, sick American, British and Chinese Army officers, enlisted men, Burmese women nurses, Naga, Chin and Shan tribesmen and a devil's brew of Indian and Malayan mechanics, railwaymen, cooks, refugees, cipher clerks and mixed breeds of southern Asia...
...than the youngest private and performed every task that any other member of the party performed. Against food scarcity, terrible heat, and rains, the General battled with dogged perseverance through the jungle at the rate of 14 or 15 miles daily until, at the end, he whipped the strange, polyglot mob into a disciplined force, willing to follow him anywhere...
...India, where past political divisions of the polyglot country have made difficult that unity which London now so ardently desires, the British Viceroy addressed rulers of the native states and assured them that Britain will...