Word: gibraltarism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Andros is "one of the most beautiful in the English language." The paragraph begins: "The earth sighed as it turned in its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides. The caves that surround the Neapolitan gulf fell into a profounder shade, each giving forth from the darkness its chiming or its booming sound...
...Mary Poppins in the Park, the century's most famous nurse-governess returns to the scene. The accent is on the word "governess," for the basic fact about Mary Poppins is that she is a Tower of Strength, a Rock of Gibraltar, a Fort Knox whose secret bullion rules the world. Employers who ask her for references are given one of the outraged sniffs that are as much a Poppins characteristic as her long, turned up nose, her carpetbag (which is always empty and yet, somehow, always contains her starched aprons and a camp bed), and the parrot-headed...
...thoughts of Dutch merchant skippers sailing their heavy-laden East Indiamen along the coasts of Africa. No such grim foreboding clutched the heart of Johannes Van Delft, master of the tiny (265 tons) Dutch coaster Combinatie, as he put out of Tangier Harbor into the Strait of Gibraltar, bound for Malta, one day last month, laden with $100,000 worth of U.S. cigarettes. It was the 20th century; the sky was blue overhead; ten kegs of good Holland beer were stowed below, to complement the vessel's small water supply, and the captain's own son, Cornelius...
...LINEA, Oct. 5--The Matador A.C. rallied for four victories here this afternoon as the sun dropped behind the rock of Gibralter and the local populace trooped home to their tortillas and madeira. So ended a post-season charity "festival" in this small Spanish town near Gibraltar, "home" of Prudential Life Insurance. One man and four animals expired during the festival...
Austerity-bound Britain had few dollars to spare, but it did have a major asset named William George Penney. He was the man so securely flown to Monte Bello. Born 43 years ago in Gibraltar, the son of an army sergeant major, Penney got a top-grade education in nuclear physics by making a clean sweep of the best fellowships, including one at the University of Wisconsin. He worked at Los Alamos, sat in the observation plane (the only British scientist) when the third A-bomb exploded over Nagasaki...