Word: taranto
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...port of Taranto, after the British occupied it last week, a correspondent asked an Italian merchant-marine captain and an Italian army lieutenant what they thought of their Government's surrender. "Ah," said the lieutenant, "we had not heard of that...
...area of Naples. To the south, in the Calabrian peninsula, where the British Eighth army had begun the landings, the Germans' chief effort was to extract what troops and planes they could. When, on the seventh day, the British arrived to take the great port of Taranto, the Germans had deserted it to confused, volubly embarrassed Italians. As the British marched eastward to Brindisi on the Adriatic, they met only the rear guard of a retreating German Panzer division...
...Taranto (Nov. 11-12, 1940) was his first great triumph. There his torpedo bombers crippled the Italian battle fleet, in an action that was a model for Pearl Harbor. Just before sending off the carrier Illustrious, he flashed a message to its commander which was British in every monosyllable: "Good luck then to your lads...
...While Taranto was in progress, Vice Admiral Sir Henry Daniel Pridham-Whippell trounced an Italian convoy in the Strait of Otranto, and A.B.C. signaled: "I trust you had many opportunities of using your heavy mashie." The Vice Admiral, a naval golf champion, flashed back "a detailed affirmative...
...wild Italian folk dance, the tarantella. The Italians have a common belief that the tarantella drives out the poison of a tarantula's bite by causing perspiration, and that the dance was named for the spider. Actually, both dance and spider were named for the city of Taranto, which was hit hard by the dancing mania...