Word: tripoli
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...peace, at Annapolis, Tripoli, Mobile Bay, Santiago, the Philippine Sea, Norfolk and San Diego, the pride of the Navy grew. In intense patriotism, dedicated Navy officers held two words to be all but synonymous-the Navy and the Nation. They upheld one to defend the other-and, after the disaster at Pearl Harbor, fought the biggest, most imaginative and magnificent sea war in history. When peace was won, and they were asked to mothball most of the great and glorious fleet and surrender power and prerogatives, minds shaped by the Navy's great years found it hard to obey...
...which will be spent abroad. The bulk of the development cash will come from Persian government royalties from the British Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Anglo-Iranian last year paid Persia some $35 million in royalties, but a new pipeline to be built from Abadan on the Persian Gulf to Tripoli in Lebanon, under a deal between Anglo-Iranian, Standard Oil (N.J.) and Socony-Vacuum, is expected to let Anglo-Iranian boost output and raise royalties to as much as $50 million next year...
...Both notions are wrong, although the second has had its subtle advantages in his diplomacy south of the border. The name came from his Aunt Juanita Terry; he speaks neither Spanish nor Portuguese. He comes from a long line of Marylanders, one of whom fought in the battle of Tripoli...
...year-old Si Mohamed el Hadjoui, publicly rebuked the Arab extremists for their "irresponsible acts." Later, as the Pasha entered a mosque for evening prayers, a fanatic Moslem stabbed him three times. Arabs joined Jews in stoning his assassin to death. Meanwhile the spark of racial hatred flared in Tripoli, where Arabs killed twelve Jews in another riot...
...Dick, or his equivalent, would go in his dream with Mad Anthony Wayne at the storming of Stony Point or with Decatur at Tripoli. . . . [This would] provide a constant character . . . who would become known to the kids...