Word: phoenicians
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Under their previous owners, the Phoenician twins had tried to work both sides of the street in heavily Democratic Arizona, although they obviously preferred the Republican side. Kansas-born Gene Pulliam likes that side, too; in Indianapolis he has been an active GOPromoter. As secretary-treasurer of his new Phoenix Newspapers, Inc., he listed "N. G. Mason," who is Mrs. Naomi Mason Pulliam. "Nina" Pulliam was his secretary for 15 years, has been his wife for five, once ran his Indianapolis radio station, WIRE...
There was a glamor about Tripoli. It was ancient Oea under Phoenician traders 1,000 years before Christ was born. It was a Roman colony after the fall of Carthage. It was the seat of Barbary coast pirates who waged a losing war against the U.S. Navy in the early 1800s. Since 1912, when the Italians wrested it from Turkish rule, it had bolstered the Italian ego. Since 1933, when Mussolini began exploiting its riches, it had inflated Italian pride. Losing it was a shock...
...naturalism. In Finnegans Wake naturalism and the artist himself all but disappear; the book is a shimmering death-dance of chameleon-like symbols; an attempt at nothing less than a complete serio-comic history of human consciousness-in Levin's neat phrase, a "doomsday book," culminating in a Phoenician paradox of dissolution and resurrection...
...Biblical renown, sister city of Tyre, the other great Phoenician seaport...
...particular interest in the exhibit are the charts picturing the economic life of the Lebanon Republic and the material depicting Phoenician culture and expansion along the Mediterranean coasts. An enormous map of the Mediterranean country is also included in the collection, but unfortunately it is too large to display. If the map's twelve sections were fitted together, it would more than fill the New Lecture Hall...