Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's Mediterranean island colonies of Malta and Cyprus are both giving Mother Britain trouble, but in very different ways. Cypriots (or at least a highly vocal percentage of them) want out of the Commonwealth; the Maltese, on the other hand, want to cuddle even closer to the mother country. In some respects, the Maltese desire is more embarrassing...
...other embattled Britons, the winter of 1940 may have been their finest hour-but not for Commando Officers and Gentlemen Evelyn Waugh writes about in his second novel about World War II. With his elite brigades buried in Eastern Mediterranean retreat, the boss commandoman in London could count for instant offensive action exactly six men and a pariah captain left at home in a shipping snafu. Desperate for any justifying achievement, the general ordered out these seven, with his press officer, on a radar-smashing raid by submarine on a Channel islet...
...ugliness in art, but he does not appreciate it in women. For Jacqueline Roque's sake, and because he does hate fuss, Picasso passed up last week's festivities in Paris. He was busy settling into an ornate villa, La Californie, overlooking Cannes and the blue Mediterranean...
...Caesar's enduring heritage was divided into three parts: he 1) set the boundaries of Italy just about where they are today, 2) was responsible for the Julian calendar of 365 days, 3) brought France into the 'community of nations and fixed the civilization of the Mediterranean world into the mold which still contains it. The dagger-wielding son of his onetime mistress to whom he gasped "Et tu, Brute" may have been the noblest, but Caius Julius Caesar was certainly the biggest Roman of them...
...luck was too good to last. At Monte Carlo last week, Ascari catapulted through a bale of hay and landed in the Mediterranean. This time he was badly cut around the head. Only four days later, though, he was back at the wheel, testing a car on the Monza track. He was a national hero; he seemed to feel Italy expected such perseverance. In a borrowed 3,000-liter Ferrari, Ciccio Ascari, 36, spun into a crash for the last time. He was dead before the ambulance reached the hospital...