Word: mediterraneans
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fiscal Crimes. Ambler sets these two adversaries down in a Mediterranean villa and proceeds to complicate an already tangled web. Firman's task is to feed Krom a diet of "truth, rubbish and half-truth" that will leave his interrogator totally befuddled and, most important, hide the identity of Firman's boss: Mat Williamson, a Fiji-born financial wizard who can be terminally mean when his interests are threatened. While Firman tries to bamboozle the professor and his two academic assistants, Williamson decides to hasten things by killing everyone involved...
...stunning upset victory, Begin's Likud (Unity) coalition last week became the dominant bloc in Israel's parliament, replacing a shattered, scandal-ridden Labor alignment that had governed the Jewish state since its founding in 1948. Likud's superhawkish campaign slogan had been "Israeli sovereignty between the Mediterranean and the Jordan," meaning no surrender of biblical land that Israel has occupied since the heady triumphs of the Six-Day War in 1967. As if to prove his faith in that slogan, Begin made his first post-election public appearance at Alon Moreh (meaning the Oak Landmark), a settlement named after...
...almost a year, the Scheersberg A carried out normal freight duties in the Mediterranean and Atlantic. Meanwhile, construction of five missile and torpedo gunboats purchased by Israel neared completion in the French port of Cherbourg. The boats were paid for by Israel, but France had halted all military trade with Arabs and Israelis. On Nov. 17, 1969, five weeks before the Israelis seized the gunboats, the Scheersberg A crew was again told that the ship had been sold. A new crew came aboard, and another mystery voyage began. Port records show that the ship left Almeria, Spain, for a course...
...tired old tramp steamer that carried the uranium oxide from Antwerp to the eastern Mediterranean is not likely to be involved in so adventurous a mission again. Last week the salt-caked Kerkyra returned empty to the Greek port of Halkis, after carrying a load of cement to Benghazi in Libya on its regular run. Beneath the paint of the new name, dockside onlookers can still discern welded letters spelling out the old, outlined in cement dust. Scheersberg A has come in out of the cold...
...that The Mediterranean has become a classic, Braudel ponders how it might have been done differently. "1 don't think of society the way I did 40 years ago." he says. "There is no society without hierarchy. You have economic hierarchy-the rich and the poer: cultural hierarchy-the knowledgeable and the ignorant; political hierarchy -the rulers and the ruled. The hierarchies maintain themselves. The permanence of hierarchies-I didn't see this problem with enough depth...