Word: tripolitanian
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...Nigerian girl who has broken with tradition is 21-year-old Zeinab Wali, a slim, golden-skinned girl of Tripolitanian Arab stock. Zeinab married a young government official when she was 17. Normally, she would have gone into kulle, the Nigerian equivalent of purdah. Instead, she returned to school (something few if any Nigerian women in Kano had ever done before), took her teacher's certificate and now spends her time demonstrating her conviction that a woman can be a good Moslem without vegetating in purdah...
...delay and retreat had worked out. He had kept his forces intact and General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's pursuit became more difficult with every mile he moved west. Rommel was falling back on strength, Montgomery was moving away from it. There were fighter bases along the Tripolitanian coast, but Rommel plowed them up as he retreated and sowed the furrows with mines. Montgomery had to build and equip fields for fighter planes as he moved along. The weather was on the Axis side. No one knew how long it would be before the sun would come...
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