Word: cleopatras
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...hold of Cleopatra. See FOREIGN NEWS, Troubled Waters...
...Manhattan newspapers, it was only an item for the shipping page when the Seafarers International Union sent a straggle of pickets to an East River pier to prevent the unloading of an 8,193-ton Egyptian passenger-cargo ship named Cleopatra. The seafarers' grievance: Gamal Abdel Nasser's policy of blacklisting any ship that stops at an Israeli port has reduced employment opportunities for U.S. seamen. Longshoremen respected the picket line. The Cleopatra remained unloaded and unnoticed...
Adams' column, "The Conning Tower," provided a varied diet of puns, epigrams, wry humor, and observations on man's minor imperfections and the minutiae of life. His sharp eye surveyed the theater: Helen Hayes, he observed, after seeing her coy performance in Caesar and Cleopatra, suffered from "fallen archness." He rewrote razor-blade ads ("Ask the man who hones one"), and punctured politicians ("When candidates appeal to 'Every-intelligent voter' they mean everybody who is going to vote for them"). He drafted fond couplets to his young sons...
...motor scooter and sat eying three maniacal traffic signs: "To Be," "Not to Be," and "No Entry." He was tossing the skull of Yorick in the air, pondering how to flip his directional signals, when a stagehand reversed the "To Be" sign, revealing the words "To Egypt." Sure enough, Cleopatra appeared and started to shimmy...
...which likes to call itself "the Pompeii of Provence," is rich in Roman ruins and history. Founded by Julius Caesar in 49 B.C., Fréjus helped build the fleet Roman galleys that defeated Antony and Cleopatra in the battle of Actium in 31 B.C. It was at Fréjus that Napoleon made his triumphant return from Egypt in 1799, and it was a key beachhead when the Allies landed on France's southern shore in 1944. The golden CÓte d'Azur begins at Fréjus' beach, and this year the dry summer...