Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...northeast were parallel and 100-odd miles apart. The lower column, motorized, was to strike at Palmyra's airport, continue to Horns, which is an important highway junction with a 50,000 population. Then the column was to take over the end of the oil pipe-line at Tripoli...
...nose in 1881, even though the Ethiopians massacred an Italian Army at Aduwa in 1896. By purchase and painful conquest Italy mastered an area in Africa about twice the size of Pennsylvania, called it Eritrea. In 1911 Italy declared an unprovoked war against the crumbling Ottoman Empire, got Tripoli in the settlement and kept Rhodes and the Dodecanese Islands provisionally...
Last week Britons had to reckon with Captain Liddell Hart's now very possible possibility. The German Libyan offense went into its third week of apparent doldrum. The British, worrying about morale at home, made much of their successes-a naval assault on Tripoli in which the town was given a thorough shellacking, a few raids out of Tobruch against Axis supply lines, a seaborne raid near Bardia in which a bridge was said to have been blown up, a few tank patrols near Salum. And they minimized the decision of the Duke of Aosta, commanding Italian forces...
...last week it was certain that the minimum rather than the maximum hope would be realized. The Germans had already counterattacked across Libya and developed a threat to the Suez Canal (see p. 23). They accomplished this, in spite of the British Fleet, by flying some troops to Tripoli. The British suspected that the French had helped the Germans supply their Libyan Army...
...year the Japanese sank the Russian fleet at Tsushima, Pollock dropped Holmes a postcard: "Certainly I believe you are as real as I am, but, as you are ejusdem generis with me, that does not make you a Ding an sich in the Kantian sense." The Italians grabbed Tripoli from Turkey, and Holmes wrote Pollock: "I have taken up Vita Nuova with Rossetti's translation alongside. Rossetti justifies to my mind my proposition that everything is dead in 25 years. ... As to Dante ... his discourse seems in equal parts from the heart and through...