Word: tobruk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tobruk and lives by the tenets of the Senussi sect, which holds Libya's diverse tribesmen together: no alcohol, no tobacco, no coffee, no immodesty. So modest and unassuming is Idris that he ordered his own image removed from Libya's postage stamps and currency and has given two of his palaces to the state...
...lowered their eyes in shame. Many who thought Anthony Eden's war on Nasser a senseless, immoral act regarded last week's moves, even if dangerous, as legal and justified. At week's end the British also landed a 400-man Royal Marine commando at Tobruk, Libya, near Egypt's western border...
...Watch was originally thrown together as a force of Highland police to prevent cattle stealing, soon became a regiment. Unkilted and wearing khaki battle dress instead, the Watch fought in World War II in Greece, Tobruk, Alamein, Burma, Sicily, Italy, Normandy, Germany. The regiment's most famed legendary wartime exploit: arresting General Eisenhower while he was roaming Gibraltar in civilian clothes (Ike was held, fuming and incommunicado, in the guardhouse for almost four hours...
...feel an emotional attachment to gallant defeats and desperate defenses that no mere victory can rival. Thus the Gallipoli campaign of World War I has always ranked high in British hearts, along with the Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava, the evacuation of Dunkirk and the siege of Tobruk...
...mile expanse of African desert between Tunisia and Egypt. Frail old King Idris was a firm friend of the West. So was young (35), balding Prime Minister Mustafa ben Halim. In exchange for a $10.5 million annual subsidy, Libya allowed the British to maintain a major air base near Tobruk, and when Premier Nasser forced the British out of the Suez Canal, the British also moved in an armored division. So far, the U.S. has contributed $12 million in Point Four aid and for maintenance of the huge Wheelus Field air base near Tripoli. Wheelus Field, with its long runways...