Word: sidi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Died. Sidi Ahmed II, 80, Bey of Tunis; in Tunis. An elegant, round little man, bearded, pince-nez'd, for 13 years he was a figurehead ruler of the French protectorate, enjoyed a peaceful "reign" of cooperation with the French, amassed a full treasury, an enviable harem...
...Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Charles Tasker Keyes, son of the Commandos' organizer, Admiral Sir Roger Keyes, and youngest lieutenant colonel in the British Army. A veteran of Narvik, Military Cross winner for Commando work in Syria, young Keyes with 30 men made his way to a wadi, near Sidi Raffa, Administrative H.Q. of Rommel's Afrika Corps. Here they lay for two days and nights awaiting the zero hour of the Brit ish attack. When the time came the Commandos daubed their faces with burnt cork, crawled over the desert to the German headquarters building...
...long-besieged Tobruk (TIME, Dec. 8), was last week negated by the Germans, who cut the relieving corridor. The two hoped-for successes, bottling the German tank forces and then destroying them, were at least postponed by the same act of cutting. It was accomplished by a convergence on Sidi Rézegh, southeast of Tobruk, of the three main Axis tank forces-Germany's 15th and 21st Panzer Divisions, Italy's Battering Ram Division...
...they did not want to. They chose to stand and fight. For a few days they seemed to be doing a little better than holding their own. But after pausing for repairs and reinforcements, the British resumed the attack, claimed they were forcing the Germans out of the Sidi Rézegh area deeper into the desert...
Containing Moves. When they had recovered from the first shock, the German armored forces took the initiative. They had three aims: 1) to engage and destroy as many British tanks as possible south of Sidi Rezegh; 2) to maintain a channel to the west below Tobruk, through which infantry and some mechanized forces could escape; 3) to create a diversion behind the British lines. This last move gave the British a short, sharp scare. Tank patrols actually penetrated several miles into Egypt before the British threw them back...