Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...From the ancient confederation of Etruria, which dominated the Italian peninsula, was later swallowed up by Rome...
When the Air Force reported the plane lost, the Russians piously joined in the search. For ten days, until Khrushchev returned from a junket to Austria, they remained silent about the attack. Then they announced that they had shot the plane down over Soviet waters near the Kola Peninsula. Olmstead and McKone, the only survivors, were in prison. They would, cried Nikita, be tried as spies, "under the full rigor of Soviet law." Such vehemence seemed only natural after the loud propaganda that followed the capture of U-2 Pilot Powers and Khrushchev's intransigence in Paris...
Bravo on your cover on Hong Kong. Your article is tremendous, and it indeed makes old Peninsula hands want to pack their bags again...
...credited with Alleghany's success or failure. But cautious Kirby made the final decisions-because he had the money. Since Young perpetually in motion, they usually conferred long distance by phone were never very close socially. Once Kirby invited Young to his salmon-fishing camp on the Gaspe Peninsula. Kirby complained that Young spent most of the weekend writing a poem on salmon fishing. But the poem signed by Young, now hangs framed on Kirby s office wall, together with a picture signed: "To AIlan, the steadfast who made it possible-with my undying appreciation...
...skilled archaeologists, potsherds can almost talk. These twelve told Gjerstad, a specialist on ancient Rome, that they were made by the little-known "Apenninic" people who lived in the Italian Peninsula long before the beginning of eyen mythical history. They were not found where the original pots were used or broken, but must have come from some nearby place. The Romans had no reason to carry earth long distances. Professor Colini believes that Apenninic Rome may date back as far as 1400 B.C. Says Professor Gjerstad: "These are the oldest relics of civilization yet found in Rome. They pull back...