Word: aegean
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...young English dead in World War I, the name of Rupert Brooke was one of the first that usually came to mind. Headed for the Dardanelles assault in 1915, Brooke got septicemia from a lip infection, drowsed off in a fever on shipboard and was buried on the Aegean island of Skyros. He was 27. His generation, bred in formal beauty and ancient peace, numbered many gallant young men; but by all accounts Brooke had the best looks and the greatest charm. Winston Churchill, then First Lord of the Admiralty, wrote at his death: "Joyous, fearless, versatile, deeply instructed, with...
...bishop referred to a famous heroine of the Greek War of Independence in the 18203. After her husband was captured and executed by the Turks, Lascarina Bouboulina replaced him as a sea raider, took command of his ship and effectively harried Turkish shipping in the Aegean...
...high-ranking brass of the Air Force and Marine Corps, who hurried off to conferences and staff consultations. Some bounced in jeeps along the cratered, axle-snapping roads of Macedonia and Thrace, to inspect Greek Army units. Offshore, units of COMNAVMED, including the carrier Leyte, prowled around the Aegean islands...
...Kremlin's ambitions could be well defined, said Lippmann, because they were historically imperialist Russian ambitions: a pan-Slav affiliation extending to the Oder River, the Alps, the Adriatic and the Aegean. It was the Red Army, not Marxist ideology, Lippmann argued, which had placed Russia in control of virtually all the territory she coveted...
...London. Researcher Violet Price, who has scheduled a cruise among the Balearic Islands in a 55-ton ketch, adds this idyllic note: "If times were right and we could choose the ideal vacation for this part of the world, the vote would go for a lazy cruise through the Aegean Islands and perhaps a walking trip through the Peloponnesos. Sound nice...