Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation, and their conviction-grudging or enthusiastic-that Nasser represents the best hope of achieving it. This dream of unity harks back to the golden age of the 7th century when, spurred by the messianic Moslem religion handed down by Mohammed the Prophet. Arab warriors burst from their desert peninsula and conquered everything in sight. In less than 150 years, the Arabs swept victoriously north to Asia Minor and the walls of Byzantine Constantinople, south over Persia and Afghanistan to the heart of India, east through Central Asia to the borders of China, west over Egypt and Africa to Spain...
Xenarios, 57, made most of his earlier finds by reading the classics, including Demosthenes' orations and Aristotle, and listening to local folklore in his travels through Greece. Then he became fascinated by references to the Chalcidice peninsula in Strabo's Geography. He was primarily interested in the allusions to weapons, jewelry and coins made in the Chalcidice-and guessed that this indicated a sizable local lode of metal. He reasoned that much of the metal would still be in the earth, since the early Greeks had primitive mining machinery and thus could dig only shallow mines. Xenarios finally...
...only failed to honor his pledge but has actually raised the expeditionary force to 23,000 troops on the pretext that Britain, Saudi Arabia and Jordan have all sent in forces to help the Imam. Britain, which has not recognized Sallal, fears that Egyptian penetration of the Arabian Peninsula will isolate its oil fields and deal a crippling blow to its economy...
...major tournament, Duden uses a bent-shafted pendulum putter that he swings between his legs like a croquet mallet, in the same manner once espoused by a Mickey Finn comic strip character and hopeless duffer named Duffy. But for Duden the croquet stroke works fine. At the Monterey Peninsula Country Club, he birdied five of the last six holes for a third-round 67 that suddenly shot him into the lead over a field that included Palmer, Player, Nicklaus and 152 others...
With its stupefying temperatures and bleak terrain, Britain's Aden Colony on the southwestern fringe of the Arabian Peninsula is one of the world's most unattractive pieces of real estate. But it has its value nonetheless. Between Suez and Singapore, it is the only suitable fueling and victualing station for the British navy, and 8,000 troops of Her Majesty's Middle East Command are stationed on its 75 square miles of overheated rock...