Word: across
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today the limestone-and-coral islands from Grand Bahama to Great Inagua hold treasure beyond Teach's wildest dreams: the northeasterly breezes that blow across them are heavy with the sweet green smell of money. A single street-front foot of Nassau's shop-lined Bay Street on New Providence Island costs as much as $10,000; clubs, marinas, luxury cottages and the private pleasure domes of the Western world's wealthy nestle among the avocado trees from one end of the 750-mile, 673-island chain to the other...
Bogue or ticky, or just plain goofy, the Lipsi (a contraction of Lipsia, Latin for Leipzig) is what East Germany is dancing this week. Its nervous rhythms have been shuffling across the country from Rostock to Dresden ever since last summer when the Ministry of Culture sighted in on rock 'n' roll. Enough of this "vulgar, Western riot music." decreed the Culture cubes. And the songwriters got their orders: Give us the stuff of social significance. So Leipzig's Rene Dubianski, one of East Germany's more enterprising pop composers, turned out a sort of double...
...Wald that the award-giving ceremony of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences was not going to fill its allotted time. "You know more than NBC?" growled Wald. "Yes," shot back Cahn. But no one was listening. Next day, when the show went on for TV audiences across the U.S., it was short indeed. It was also pretty bad. Even the early part of the show was poorly organized, unimpressively staged, and sometimes blatantly vulgar. At the end, M.C. Jerry Lewis was left to mug his way through an unplanned 20-minute melee that had the somewhat sweaty...
...wartime weapons consultant to the Italian armed forces, De Henriquez was not content to observe just one side; he was constantly slipping across the lines to see how the other side operated. He was arrested 18 times, once sent before a Yugoslav partisan firing squad: "I kept laughing and telling them I was a professor, and finally they let me go." To De Henriquez, Italy's collapse was a dream come true: "Capitulations are wonderful for collectors. Generals are busy fleeing, and nobody bothers about maps and documents...
...submarines, eight ships, three armored trains, several concrete pillboxes, and a two-ton unexploded aerial bomb that he defused himself. His current collection includes almost every conceivable kind of military firearm of the past 500 years, an "iron maiden" and other torture instruments, 20 old castles and forts scattered across Italy...