Word: crete
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...music.' I had some Debussy piano pieces in my record collection, and I thought, 'That's better.' I started all over again." Taylor's improvising continued. The eventual motif was determined by Designer Gene Moore, who watched a run-through and said one word, "Crete." The resulting Images seems like an inevitable blending of Debussy with Minoan reliefs...
...maidens are decked out on feast days in necklaces, bracelets and headdresses of old gold coins as well as silver and heirloom jewelry, the better to lure would-be suitors. In Epirus in northern Greece, a bride goes to her wedding on horseback, carrying jewels in a casket; in Crete, the dowry often follows her on a mule train. In Athens, a monthly newspaper called Arranged Marriage provides a kind of form chart of the financial attractions available in the marketplace of love. (Sample entry: "Woman, 38, with moral principles, dowry of 200,000 drachmas cash and 300 olive trees...
...reached supersonic speed. It then became a new and exhilarating sensation-like having the carpet of the world map magically moved away from you. Just 20 min. after Venice, the heel of the Italian boot had been reached. Moments later, Greece flashed by on the left, and soon Crete and Cyprus were behind us, too. The yellow-brown dusk of the desert began to descend as Captain Norman Todd of British Airways throttled back and glided toward Bahrain, a 231-sq.-mi. island of oil rigs, a refinery and an aluminum smelter; it is a key stopover...
...World War II, Evelyn was something of a misfit. Despite an ample display of valor in the battle for Crete, the insubordinate officer was passed from general to general. In Yugoslavia, Evelyn amused himself by circulating a story that Tito was a lesbian in drag. The story caught up with the marshal. "Ask Captain Waugh," he told the British commander, "why he thinks I am a woman." For the only time in his life, the writer was at a loss for words...
...typical flight operation at sea and an impressive display of a Sixth Fleet carrier's naval-air talents. The U.S.S. Forrestal with four escorting destroyers, was steering a complicated course between Sicily and Crete, exercising its special martial arts. The Phantoms and Corsairs flew off to drill in interceptor tactics or to make practice runs with dummy bombs and missiles. Electronic-surveillance planes stuffed with microtechnology ranged far and wide on reconnaissance flights. The destroyers darted off or raced back to the carrier according to their own tactical plans. Periodically, tankers showed up to refuel...