Word: ilex
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...slow to arrive at decisions, he partly made up for it by a relentless, austere capacity for hard work. Even at his summer residence, Castel Gandolfo, Pope Pius had a mania about wasting a second. Sitting under a red umbrella in the shade of a huge ilex tree (he could not bear strong sunlight), or walking briskly in his shaded garden, he kept his nose buried in documents he was studying. During his solitary, silent and frugal meals, Pius listened to the news broadcasts, but so chary was he of an unnecessary word that once when he sneezed...
...Ecco Roma!" is her invocation. "A city of bells and hills and walls; of many trees nordic and tropical together, pine, ilex, and palm, and water and a disturbing depth of shadows; of acres of ruins, some handsome, some shabby lumps and dumps of useless masonry, sprinkled through acres of howling modernity-an impossible compounding of time, in which no century has respect for any other and all hit you in a jumble at every turn...
...workers (TIME Jan. 27), hundreds of Italians streamed through the plushy corridors of the Grand Hotel, where the immigration commission was set up. After a few days of this, the management brushed them out through the revolving door towards the rainy Piazza, dell' Esedra. Here, under the pampered ilex trees, they waited their turn, munched bread and cheese, lounged against the new Buicks and Chryslers of hotel patrons who found Europe comfortable enough...
...little craft armed with two torpedo tubes, manned by ten men, will make 47 knots. The poet Gabriele d'Annunzio used to say that their initials stood for "memento audare semper"-"remember always to be brave." Five of them buzzed out from Pegadia to the attack. The destroyer Ilex spurted forward, intercepted them, sank two, damaged a third, and sent the other pair hightailing. As the vessels moved off, Italian planes attacked, but were repulsed with the loss of two. Bored, the British squadron steamed away...
...owned by Roderick Stephens Jr., 23, who was her captain last week and his brother Olin, 24, her designer. On corrected time, Flame dropped into third place and another U. S. boat, Henry and Sherman Morss's schooner Grenadier, was second. Sixth and last was the scratch boat Ilex. Said Robert Somerset, skipper of the Flame: "Flame went fast but so did Dorade and it was difficult to shake her off, although she is a much smaller boat...