Word: peninsular
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...scholar, actually delivered the speech in the original Greek." But stubby young Sir Thomas delivered "a heavy slogger" to Shelley's middle, and the poet turned tail and ran. Not many years later, Gronow reports with disinterest, young Styles was driven mad by fleas and heat during the Peninsular War and cut his throat from ear to ear with a razor...
...labor-management relations have been brewing ever since 1957, when General Telephone & Electronics, the nation's largest telephone company after the Bell System, bought up the gentle and folksy Peninsular Telephone Co. The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers complained that General Telephone quickly moved to cut union benefits, dehumanized the company with its cost-slashing efficiencies. Florida's Railroad and Public Utilities Commission recently blamed General for cutting back service, and threatened fines unless it improved. Negotiating a new contract for 3,500 hourly workers this spring, management and labor found themselves far apart. Last month more than...
...When God had finished making the world," say the natives of Mani, "he had a sack of stones left over and he emptied it here." Petroprolific Mani is the middle tine of a twisted three-pronged peninsular fork that jabs into the Mediterranean from Greece's Peloponnesus. About as remote from the 20th century as the people of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Maniots dwell in a kind of telescopic time capsule that includes Homer but little more than a hint of the Industrial Revolution. Few Maniots read or write. They have no radios, movies or telephones...
Home in the Horseshoe. Since Candlestick Park is on a peninsular sort of culdesac, many a San Franciscan feared a traffic jam to end all traffic jams. But on opening day there was not much cause for worry: Candlestick's 8,500-car parking lot was left 2,000 shy of capacity. Dreading to drive, hundreds of San Franciscans came by seaplanes, helicopters, sail and motor boats. It was all remarkably orderly...
...shipyards of Queens Island, Belfast last week, joiners, painters, decorators and electricians were swarming over the newly launched, most luxurious superliner of Britain's maritime fleet. It is the Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co.'s 45,000-ton, $42 million superliner, Canberra. Sailing for P. & O., which coined the word "posh,"-the 740-ft. Canberra will be one of the poshest ships afloat, with a cruising speed of 27½ knots, air conditioning throughout, and closed-circuit television for passengers while the ship is at sea. Designed with an aluminum superstructure to save weight, and engines...