Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Englander sent a cheerful note from Tripoli. Here, in a city which, except for some bombed buildings, looks untouched by war, he sat down on a restaurant balcony to a dinner of antipasto, spaghetti with meat sauce, steak and fruit tart. He washed it down with a bottle of sweet, heady wine while the organ-grinder played 0 Sole Mio on the sidewalk below...
Monty Delivers. Until Tripoli's capture, Charlton got out his News on captured Italian mobile presses (once he used Italian prisoners' maps for paper). He dressed up his sheet with German propaganda pictures. Monty himself at times delivered bundles of the News in his command...
Monty Defends. As the Eighth advanced, Charlton established other papers for rear areas (also printed in Italian for the natives) : the Crusader, Tripoli Times, Syracuse News. In these and the Eighth's News he jumped from the military into the political field. He roasted the U.S. for not imprisoning more Fascists in Italy, criticized the unchecked Italian profiteering, the kid-glove treatment of King Vittorio Emanuele. Last October Charlton's News attacked Mihailovich's conduct in Yugoslavia. Again Parliament seethed, later came around to switching sympathies (and supplies) to Communist Mar shal Tito...
...fleet," are generally named after naval heroes. MacDonald's can, the O'Bannon, is named after a marine. The marine was Lieut. Presley N. O'Bannon, a whooping, crop-haired Irishman from Kentucky, who in 1805 led the Marines (seven of them) to the "shores of Tripoli." O'Bannon and a motley crew of Greeks, Arabs and Egyptians marched across the Libyan desert to attack the Barbary pirates in their stronghold at Derna. After considerable derring-do, O'Bannon breached the ramparts, raised the Stars and Stripes...
Anxiety in January. "I have had only two anxious moments. . . . The first was on January 15 when we attacked Tripoli. I knew we must get to Tripoli in ten days. ... I knew that if the Germans could hold us we might have to go back a long way. . . . For about one day in that battle, I was slightly anxious. But we got to Tripoli in eight days. The second occasion was when we left Tripoli. . . . About the same time Rommel was attacking the Americans at Gafsa, and we had to do something about it. ... We were very weak and very...