Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obsession. Italy would grow strong through Fascism, then Italy would conquer an empire. Not only bits of Africa would be hers; she would rule Mare Nostrum and its shores. Italian ships would ply back & forth between Italy and Cyrenaica, Tripolitania, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco; to the east they would sail to the gates of Islam, which would recognize Italy as its protector. Italian settlers would occupy all the fertile shores of Mare Nostrum, and Mare Nostrum would be Italian forever...
...airborne invasion of Crete. After the fall of this British outpost, the Mediterranean no longer was a British lake. The concept of the Mediterranean as the Empire's commercial life line has been dead since Italy's entrance into the war forced merchant ships to sail around the Cape of Good Hope. Now, even as a military seaway, choked by two such bottlenecks as the 100-mile strait between Sicily and Tunisia and the 250-mile stretch between Crete and Libya, it was of little...
Young Joe Lee lives in a home on Beacon Hill that was built in 1797, but he has spent most of his life helping underprivileged kids in the slums around the Hill. He loves to sail and swim, so to get the pale-faced children in the sun he persuaded Boston authorities to open a public beach on the Charles River Esplanade, taught them to sail in $25 boats that he designed himself...
...President whose Lend-Lease Act had financially underwritten the war of all democracies against the Axis, these things were serious news, but possibly not so serious as the fact that in Moscow a non-aggression pact was signed which freed Japan of Russian fears, freed her to sail against the East Indies (see p. 34}. If Japan chooses to move, the President can hardly escape an ugly choice: to abandon the cause of the democracies in half the world, or take...
...Gold Cup put up by Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1905, sailing from Sandy Hook to the Lizard (3,014 miles) in 12 days, 4 hours, 1 minute-a record that still stands for a transatlantic crossing under sail...