Word: tanis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With the general came his beauteous wife, black-haired, alabaster-skinned Rani Kaiser, 33 years his junior, and their 3½-year-old daughter Tani (Nepalese for "tugger...
...some $2,000,000,000 worth of art, but most of the movable stuff eventually turned up in cellars and salt mines and in the private collections of top Nazis. One first-rank painting had been destroyed by bombing: Mantegna's frescoes painted on plaster in the Eremi-tani church at Padua...
...headquarters of Admiral Michelier with a pair of pearl-handled .45-caliber pistols strapped to his legs and a tommy gun under one arm. So impressed was the Sultan of Morocco that he presented Patton with the special order of Ouissam Alaouite, with the citation: "Les Lions dans leurs tanières tremblent en le voyant approcher" (The lions in their dens tremble at his approach). According to unofficial reports, he also impressed Franco's commanders in Spanish Morocco, doing a valuable service by placating them and removing any immediate danger of attack on the Allies' rear...
...wiggled my way under a lorry, not caring that I was lying in a mess of dirt and oil and blood. A wounded and emaciated Indian soldier, more exhausted than I, crawled under beside me and with the eyes of a stricken animal gazed at me, crying softly: Tani, pani.' But of course I had not a drop of water to offer him." The troops attacked for three whole days until they broke the encirclement...
...Netherlands East Indies were apparently to be spared for the moment. But not forever. Just to remind the Dutch that Japan had not forgotten them, Vice Foreign Minister Tani called on Netherlands Minister to Tokyo J. C. Pabst, expressed appreciation of the trade concessions already made by the Indies, declared however they were not enough, asked for more, and in no uncertain terms suggested "the need for prompt compliance." Minister Pabst was prompt...