Word: mediterraneanize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more so since it would appear this august body has the power of prophecy. Two months before the London reviews of Operette appeared to jangle Mr. Coward's poor nerves, Mr. Coward told me and others that he was to be sent on an official visit to the Mediterranean fleet, the dates of his departure and the dates of his return. You don't suppose Fleet Street had been around to see the Admiralty Office and told them in advance how they were all set to jangle Mr. Coward's nerves, advising that office that if they...
Rightist General Miguel Aranda, commanding the mud-sodden, zigzag line from Teruel to the Mediterranean, issued a "Fight, rain or no rain!" order but Rightist troops inched forward only five miles to take the town of Portell before being halted...
That cruise started in March 1937 when the Bakers christened their American-designed, Chinese-built schooner So Fong (which they were told meant "everything beautiful in woman"), set sail for the U. S. via the Philippines, the South Seas, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, Mediterranean and the South Atlantic. Not for glory, not for science, but just for fun, the Bakers bucked monsoons for 600 miles from Sumatra to Ceylon, saw their main boom snapped during a vicious squall in the Indian Ocean, spent three days on a tiny tropical island while the spar was being repaired...
Osservatore Romano, semi-official news-organ of Pius XI, had busied itself printing the highest-powered extracts of an anti-Italian nature it was able to cull from the back files of German newspapers. In sum, these gems of Nazi thought extolled the Nordic races over the Mediterranean, and Osservatore Romano even found a Nazi press crack that Italians ought to have no difficulty colonizing in Africa "because the difference between them and Africans is not very great...
...axis, an apparently contradictory set-up, but only if Il Duce refrains from farther territorial expansion. But, Dr. Salvemini declared, since Hitler has gained enormous prestige by his Austrian adventures, Mussolini must keep the Italian masses contented by more victories, and these, for geographical reasons, must be in the Mediterranean region--in direct conflict with British and French away...