Word: gibraltarism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Service Separation. In St. Louis, the city zoo received two Barbary apes from Gibraltar with a note from the U.S. naval liaison officer: "Notify me of their safe arrival at the zoo, so they may be officially discharged from the Royal Army...
...behind such misfortune? Some Tangerines blamed the King's act on jealous Casablanca merchants. Others insisted it was a British plot to divert trade to Gibraltar, or a French plot to force Tangier into the franc zone. The explanation accepted by most Tangerines was simpler. To the passionate, doctrinaire leftist politicos of Morocco, Tangier is a monument to foreigners, a corrupt, unclean, anti-Moroccan place that must be cleaned up and cleaned out. Let moviemakers find sinister backdrops elsewhere...
Died. General Sir Kenneth Arthur Noel Anderson, 67, India-born World War II commander of the British First Army, who led his fellow veterans of Dunkirk across North Africa from the west, captured Tunis in 1943; of pneumonia; in Gibraltar, where he had served as governor and commander in chief until his retirement...
...invasion.* Like Clark (who lost his pants while scurrying back to the waiting submarine), Lemnitzer had some close calls: he had to hide in a wine cellar when nosy Vichy French gendarmes came to investigate curious circumstances at the clandestine meeting place; later, en route to Torch headquarters in Gibraltar, his B-17 was attacked by three Nazi JU-88s, which wounded the copilot...
Raisin belongs to the long and simple annals of the poor. Three generations of the Younger family are packed in a sunless Chicago South Side tenement flat. There is white-haired, wide-girthed Mother Younger (Claudia McNeil), a matriarchal Rock of Gibraltar; her son Walter Lee (Sidney Poitier), 35, who finds his chauffeur's uniform a strait jacket; his younger sister Beneatha (Diana Sands), a race-conscious progressive who wants to be a doctor; Walter's wife Ruth (Ruby Dee), who yearns for a grassy reprieve from the soot-and-asphalt jungle; and the Youngers' small...