Word: gulf
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...Rose Tattoo (by Tennessee Williams; produced by Cheryl Crawford) is laid, like most Tennessee Williams plays, in the South-in a village on the Gulf Coast. But its characters are rowdy Sicilian immigrants, and its tenor is life-loving and affirmative. Playwright Williams has cast off unnaturalism for primitivism, neurosis for fulfillment, the genteel nymphomaniac for the savage one-man woman. But though he has reversed his basic theme, introduced some livelier and trashier tunes, trilled a bit less and banged more, Williams has never seemed so blatantly himself...
...From the Gulf of California to the Strait of Magellan, 125 million Latin Americans braced themselves hopefully this week for the gayest, gaudiest carnaval in years...
...action rifles. The government has bought $26 million worth of surplus U.S. military stocks, mainly M-24 tanks, light artillery and trucks. The two air brigades fly ancient British Audax and Hawker Hurricane fighters, plus a few P-47s. A tiny navy patrols along the Caspian and the Persian Gulf. The U.S., in Iran, has made no effort comparable to its military-aid program in Turkey. Granted that Iran has no such military tradition as Turkey's, a well-equipped Iranian army could make an invasion costly to the Russians...
Cervantes soon found himself well started along the road to military adventure. On Oct. 7, 1571, Private Cervantes was aboard a warship in the Spanish and Venetian fleet that sailed into the Gulf of Lepanto and closed with the Ottoman fleet bent on the destruction of Christian power in the Mediterranean. A high fever pinned the gaunt, red-bearded young man to his bunk, but when he heard the battle raging, he threw himself into the fight anyhow...
...formidable gift that His Britannic Majesty's ambassador brought to His Imperial Majesty, the Shah of Persia, that day in 1804. The ambassador had carried it over thousands of miles, from England, around the Cape of Good Hope, and up the Persian Gulf to Teheran. But the gift was apparently worth the bother. The Shah was so delighted with it that he gave himself a new title in its honor: "Most Formidable Lord and Master of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...