Word: esteli
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...Prestige. One of Sidi Mounsaf's fellow puppets, bewhiskered, penny-pinching Admiral Jean Estéva, made good his escape from Tunisia. In Estéva's post as Tunisia's Resident General. General Giraud plunked his own man: tall, jolly General Alphonse Juin, French field commander in Tunisia, to administer the protectorate until the permanent Resident General, impetuous, gallant General Charles Mast, recovers from injuries received in a recent automobile accident...
...profoundly affected by a spectacular trial in which he successfully defended a boy accused on circumstantial evidence of murder. After the case, Figari abandoned law, devoted the rest of his days to painting. In 1912, aged 51, he published a work on esthetics, El Arte, la Estética y el Ideal...
Policy and Attitude. The report plowed smack into renegotiation's weak est point, the same one war contractors have stewed over for ten months: inconsistency. The Committee added that Army administration (75% of all contracts) "has been unnecessarily cumbersome" be cause military men insisted on running a civilian show...
...here that Dr. Brouha came in with the innovation that has led the Step Test to be referred to almost as often as the "Brouha I'est." In seeking to adapt the material of the Fatigue Lab experiments to a practical test, he developed the present procedure which requires only a stepping platform 20 inches high...
...Offshore Ulysses' sailors were lured by the lotus-eaters. From Carthage, whose ruins lie near the present city of Tunis, Hannibal's legions moved against the Roman Empire. It was Cato the Censor who urged on the Romans in the Punic wars with his famous slogan: "Delenda Est Carthago" (Carthage must be destroyed...