Word: mediterraneans
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...above sharp practices akin to stealing. He is dull, sexually primitive and demanding, but he has just the wife to understand and cope with him. Flo had the great good luck to have an Italian grandmother. She cooks overpowering meals, handles her brutish husband with a nice Mediterranean mixture of tears, seeming ignorance and docility. She is greedy and vulgar, and yet so full of the juices of life that it is impossible to dislike her. Among the tenants Author Lessing found types who, at first glance, might resemble people anywhere, but who in looks, sound and character prove...
...Christ of the Gospels, imagined and loved within the dimensions of a Mediterranean world, capable of still embracing and still forming the center of our prodigiously expanded universe...
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The Mediterranean is the prize in "Hinge of Fate...
...Actions of Iron Curtain countries that depend on the Chinese harvest seemed to confirm the rumor: Russia de faulted on bean deliveries to West Germany and Denmark; East Germany began buying beans on free world markets. Even Red China itself began seeking liquid oils from India and South America. Mediterranean countries, notably Spain, reported olive harvests were 10% off, indicating there would be an increased demand for soybeans as a substitute source...
...Mediterranean naval base of Toulon. A towering look-alike of the Charles de Gaulle of yore, Philippe has shown many flashes of his father's courage as well, holds a Croix de guerre with palm for his World War II exploits...