Word: mediterranean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With half a tongue in cheek, Wilder likes to say that the first paragraph of The Woman of Andros is "one of the most beautiful in the English language." The paragraph begins: "The earth sighed as it turned in its course; the shadow of night crept gradually along the Mediterranean, and Asia was left in darkness. The great cliff that was one day to be called Gibraltar held for a long time a gleam of red and orange, while across from it the mountains of Atlas showed deep blue pockets in their shining sides. The caves that surround the Neapolitan...
...French liner Champollion plowed through the squally eastern Mediterranean one day last week on course for Beirut, capital of Lebanon. Aboard were 111 passengers, most of them Christmas pilgrims bound for the Holy Land, and 212 crewmen skippered by Captain Henri Bourde, a taciturn French salt who knows the Levantine seas like the back of his gnarly hand...
...policymakers of NATO agreed last week on a special formula for ending two years of Anglo-American friction over command of NATO forces in the vital Mediterranean area. The solution was a kind of two-in-one oil: Britain and the U.S. will share joint command in the area, subject to the higher authority of NATO's Supreme Commander Matthew B. Ridgway...
...keeps command of its own Sixth Fleet (largest in the area) under Admiral Robert B. ("Mick") Carney, with responsibility for delivering the atomic bomb and supporting land operations. Britain keeps command of its own Mediterranean fleet plus the French and Italian naval forces assigned to NATO...
...Crimson Pirate. Buccaneer Burt Lancaster and his cutthroat crew roam the Mediterranean in a merry travesty on pirate movies (TIME, Sept...