Word: gibraltarism
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...well with Doolittle when he was Doolittle's chief of staff in Africa, but incurred his frowns for sneaking out on combat missions without letting Doolittle know. (Doolittle had wanted to go himself.) Once, on a flight to Gibraltar, Vandenberg manned a waist gun, helped drive off a German attacker while Doolittle took the place of the wounded copilot...
Rome established the primacy of law, created a thriving economy, spread the advantages of universal citizenship from Gibraltar to the Crimea, and made the family the rock of civil life. Yet the law was overthrown by barbarians, the international Roman economy succumbed to a renewed provincialism, and the old Stoic families took to licentiousness and ceased to reproduce themselves...
...German home at 15 (her father used to beat her over the head with his pipe), went on the stage, turned reformer, was jailed eight times, in 13 years hawked 99,000 copies of the Birth Control Review on Manhattan streets, was called by Margaret Sanger the "Rock of Gibraltar...
...Sicily had eyed each other warily while feverishly building forts and airfields. Too recently had he watched Sicily-based Stukas cut at will the lifeline of the British Empire as it curved past Sicily on its way to Suez. Control of Sicily, for a nation which already has Gibraltar and Suez, Sicilians knew, would mean control of the eastern and western basins of the Mediterranean...
...each with facilities for only one flotilla, which already crowded the pens. Farther north were Bergen and Trondheim, with berths for a single flotilla apiece. But the Allied navies patrolled the Atlantic looking for U-boats on the escape routes and the Mediterranean was an Allied lake, closed at Gibraltar...