Word: tangier
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...Rightist warships vigilantly patrolled the Straits. One night last week, when land fighting on the stalemated fronts was comparatively quiet with only a minor Leftist counteroffensive in the South being waged, Commander Castro decided to run the blockade. About midnight, with lights out, the José Luis Diez passed Tangier, the internationally governed protectorate of Morocco. Off Tarifa, southern tip of Spain, the destroyer caught two armed Rightist trawlers. Commander Castro put their crews of 24 men in chains in the destroyer's bow and sank the trawlers. Ten miles east of British-owned Gibraltar...
...which tourists pay one shilling entrance fee. Lord Bute, who with characteristic self-effacement went to War as Private Crichton-Stuart, also owns London and Edinburgh town houses, Kames Castle and Mount Stuart, Rothesay, on the Isle of Bute, the luxurious Moorish-style El Minzah Palace Hotel of Tangier, the Castle of Guadacorte, about ten miles north of Gibraltar in Rightist Spain...
...post-mortems on Su Lin had not been finished when Floyd Tangier ("Ajax") Smith arrived in Chengtu, China with four giant pandas, three of them male cubs, which he had found in Western Szechuan Province. An American banker in China who turned big-game hunter more than 15 years ago, gaunt, bespectacled Floyd Smith has spent most of his 55 years abroad, notably in the Orient. Chicago's Field Museum has sponsored many of his expeditions, though lately he has worked for the London Zoo and the British Museum. Two years ago he formed a panda-hunting partnership with...
...Father Gapon's peaceful petitioners were shot down in hundreds outside the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, while Mukden was lost and the Russian Navy went to destruction in Tsushima. The Kaiser rattled his sabre at Tangier, made a crude attempt to trick Tsar Nicholas into an alliance. Mr. Balfour, innocuous leader of England's Conservatives, sank into innocuous desuetude...
...Gibraltar when Haile Selassie fled his empire and the war was over. Captain P. P. Allen was told by the cargo's Finnish shippers, who had presumably already been paid for it, to land it somewhere and await further orders. He landed it at Tangier in Morocco's International Zone. Before he could get his ship away, the port authorities ordered him to reload his perilous consignment and get it out of Tangier in a hurry...