Word: lightly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Durazzo, Albania's second-best landing spot. Sir Andrew was on his flagship, had brought his fleet up on a quick run from the African coast, pausing to contact supply ships, after pounding the daylights out of Bardia and points west. While he was busy at Valona his light forces made it clear to all the world that the Adriatic was no longer Benito Mussolini's "pond." At no point did the British encounter any Italian resistance...
...Enough died as it was under a ceaseless inferno of bombs from the R. A. F. and shells from the Royal Navy. For five days many units of the latter lay to offshore, grimly pouring broadside after broadside into the flaming town. In an extraordinarily daring exploit, one British "light vessel" (possibly a destroyer) penetrated Bardia's inner harbor, and in a hail of Italian machine-gun fire from shore, sank three Italian supply vessels. The Italians tried, with torpedo planes, to drive off the iron-clad fortresses which their shore batteries could not hit or harm...
Through all these actions, most conspicuous by its absence was the renowned Italian Air Force. A captured Blackshirt pilot shed some light. "Of what use are our two-gun planes," he asked, "against the British eight-guns...
Best Seller. But Manager Johnson's best-selling good-looker dates from the regime of his predecessor, Giulio Gatti-Casazza. Lily Pons has exuded practiced charm, emitted light but flawless high notes at the Met for just ten years...
Religious Education. "People must be taught what the facts are upon which Christian faith rests. The Church must give children and young people an environment in which they can grow up as Christians, and help its members everywhere to look at the problems of their lives in the light of their relation...