Word: di
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invade its 40-mile-long eastern cape where the holy and historic Mount towers in misty beauty above monasteries perching like fabulous castles on crags above the sea. Surrounded by flower-scented glens and gorges, veiled with pine and cypress and chestnut, are great Lavra Monastery, Vatopédi, Simöpetra, bastioned Dionysiou (which proudly possesses the brain and right hand of Saint John the Baptist) and many others, each with its fusty library and gilded Byzantine church...
...lately Manager McCarthy has been chuckling out of the other corner of his mouth. The Yankees' prize rookie had lived up to his reputation all right-in 15 exhibition games he had batted .438, a better average than that of any other Yankee, including Batting Champion Joe Di Maggio. But the Scooter had a low number in the draft, had been examined at St. Petersburg, pronounced physically fit. Last week, in time's nick, Rizzuto's home-town draft board granted his request for deferment (because of dependents), gave the approaching baseball season the most spectacular rookie...
...Berg,11. In a soprano that was emotionless, usually hall-size, usually on pitch, she sang an air from Mozart's Magic Flute. Sophisticated kids and mammas gave each other sidelong looks when Conductor Rudolph Ganz announced that Ellen Berg would next sing the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor. On that glassy surface, double-runners are not allowed. Coloratura Berg sailed out cleanly, figure-eighted through her trills, skidded a couple of times into her flute accompanist, ducked low to coast into her final note an octave below the conventional high E flat. Wisely, she made no attempt...
...Museum collections were an Assyrian marble bas-relief of the 9th century B.C.; from the Antioch expedition conducted by a group of American universities and museums, a number of mosaics, among them a pool which may be installed in the Museum court; an unfinished painting by Piero di Cosimo, 15th century Florentine master, entitled "The Misfortunes of Silenus;" and a Siamese head of Buddha, in wood, of the 13th or 14th century, from the well-known Eumorfopoulos Collection, in London...
...pound: Tine (H) defeated di Lorenzo (T), decision...