Word: caravel
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...Raquira—a Spanish relic that lives off tourism and still looks as if it were 1562—I buy a souvenir; a handcrafted Spanish Caravel. It’s two o’clock on a Saturday and they can’t make change. It’s their first sale...
...Bush's campaign 25. He called drug profits out of line 27. Boxing Day mo. 28. Thickening agent in foods 30. Model of honesty 33. Small bills 35. Role for Patti or Madonna 36. James, scoutmaster who lost his position because he's gay 38. Everyday article 39. Notable caravel 41. Dissenting vote 42. Revival shout 44. Court here will decide Pinochet's immunity 46. Ali's daughter, with six straight boxing victories 49. New Deal power agcy. 50. LAX posting 51. Kenny Rogers' She Believes __ 54. They've sued Wal-Mart over bogus T shirts 58. Beatnik's interjection...
...whole outfit of equally misleading new ones. Our predecessors made a hero of Christopher Columbus. To Europeans and white Americans in 1892, he was Manifest Destiny in tights, whereas a current PC book like Kirkpatrick Sale's The Conquest of Paradise makes him more like Hitler in a caravel, landing like a virus among the innocent people of the New World...
...days after the three-caravel fleet eased west from the Canary Islands, the scientific mysteries of a strange watery world began to crop up. On Sept. 13 the compass needles pointed 3½° west of the North Star. Christopher Columbus and his jittery mariners had never before seen this westerly shift. But Columbus guessed an explanation: the North Star moves.* This was a notable contribution to the science of navigation and it was the expedition's first triumph over the mysteries that dogged the voyage...
Since that day, the family has hewed marble. When Columbus set sail in a tiny caravel, a Fabbricotti was grunting, hoisting marble blocks. When Washington shivered at Valley Forge, a Fabbricotti sweated under a hot sun, polishing and smoothing white stone. When a World War became the echo for an assassin's shot, Fabbricottis heard not. They were quarrying marble...