Word: zara
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second day, the Yugoslavs drove the Italians out of Scutari, Albania, and took the Italian-held island of Zara in the Adriatic...
...whole British Fleet was swinging into action. Admiral Cunningham ordered fire switched to the next in line. This was the Zara, sister to Fiume. Again the first salvo struck fire. The Pola, another sister of Fiume and Zara, was engaged. At one stage both Pola and Zara hung white sheets over their sides to indicate surrender. Barham blew the destroyers Vincenzo Gioberti (1,729 tons, 4.7-in. guns) and the Maestrale (1,449 tons, 4.7-in. guns) to bits as they tried to duck into smoke screens...
...Graves, Rolla Cambell, and Larry Corbett will race the 600-yard event; while Joe Scott and Bob Houghton, who ran the mile last year, are in the 1000-yard run. In the high jump are Bob Partlow, John Bunker, and Mike Zara; Kay Rogers and John Sopka are running the mile...
THIS LAND Is OURS-Louis Zara-Houghton Mifflin ($2.75). By pure bulk of fodder this 776-page narrative of the Revolutionary frontier will satisfy munchers of romance as much as its mixture of admirable material and thoroughly uninspired talent will disappoint critics. In a Conestoga wagon, young Andrew Benton crosses the wild Alleghenies, gets into practically everything out there from the 1760s on, up to and including the last Indian war dance at Chicago...