Word: monogram
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...this outcrop of pine-dotted rock at the mouth of the Mediterranean may have roots in Ireland, Italy, Malta, Morocco and, yes, Spain. But a stroll down Main Street shows that the biggest cultural influence has been Britain. Letters go into mailboxes - no, postboxes - marked with the Queen's monogram. Conversations, though in the vernacular Spanglish, are peppered with Briticisms like "bloke" and a car's "boot." And tea-time at the Rock Hotel means fresh scones and cucumber sandwiches with the crusts...
SILVIO BERLUSCONI Billionaire to head Italy's 59th gov't since WW II. Have fun, but please don't monogram anything...
...with military models, in particular nautical ones manufactured by Tamiya. This Shizuoka-based firm, and to a lesser extent its competitor Hasegawa, produced plastic kits far superior to the American versions. U.S. companies like Revell, Heller and Monogram made clunky plastic parts that needed filing upon removal from their sprues and molded castings that resembled gobs of melted cheese. Tamiya's models, on the other hand, were exemplary - pristine, perfect little gunwales, torpedoes and conning towers. The parts trees came shrink-wrapped and were rendered with such precision you could see the bolts on a battleship's antiaircraft cannon...
...even as he headed east to monogram his resume at Andover and Yale, even as he played on all the same fields his father had, he played by different rules and in a very different climate. He didn't have the talent to be the baseball-team captain, so he became commissioner of stickball, a rebel sport that upended Andover's jock culture and gave everyone a chance, however hopeless their natural gifts. He tried at first to impress his teachers, combing through the thesaurus for a synonym for tears to use in an English essay he was writing about...
...Fenway star Garciaparra 41. __ aves (unique individuals) 43. Prosodic foot 45. Pt. after deuce 46. No-goodniks 47. Blair among others: abbr. 48. Org. whose president-elect backs a moratorium on capital punishment 49. __ Diemen's Land (Tasmania, once) 51. A place to lose 52. The Waste Land monogram...