Word: moorish
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...Charleston campus etched with palmettos, amid yellow Moorish buildings, some 1,900 young men in oldfashioned, ball-buttoned, long-tailed military uniforms will this week pass in review before South Carolina's Governor Richard Jefferies. The Citadel, known also as the Military College of South Carolina, which vies with Virginia Military Institute for second rank (after Annapolis and West Point) among U.S. military academies, will be 100 years...
Pierre Laval, 58, whose swart skin may be traceable to Moorish ancestry, was born twelve miles from Vichy at Chaåteldon, where he now owns an old chateau (see cut, p. 29). His father was the innkeeper, butcher and one-man post office. As a boy, Pierre haggled with his father's customers, was known as a vicious bully...
...That the elaborate tilework found on old Mexican buildings had its origin in the Moorish civilization of the Middle Ages...
...That one Latin-American building, the great cathedral in Mexico City, contains the whole stratified history of Latin-American architecture on and within its four walls; it has Aztec foundations, a 16th-Century Gothic ceiling, baroque and churrigueresque chapels, Moorish tile-work, East Indian decorative motifs, is yet one of the most harmoniously beautiful structures in the Western Hemisphere...
Spain's "Blue Division" was a full division of General Francisco Franco's regular Army, seasoned with a sprinkling of Moorish fighters. From the Scandinavian countries Germany got a few Swedes, Danes and Norwegians for a "Viking Division." Rumania, Hungary and Finland, promised territorial gains, sent heavy contributions...