Word: scipio
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...possessions, and the most advanced toward independence. Besides Algeria's inhospitable plateaus, this is a broad stretch of country sloping down through grain fields, vineyards and great olive groves to the sea. It is the classic Ifriqiyeh, which gave its name to the whole continent. From Hannibal and Scipio to Rommel and Patton, soldiers have grappled for its strategical coasts, but the present Bey of Tunis, Sidi Mohammed el Amin, 74, belongs to a dynasty that has reigned for 250 years...
...that's nearly the way it went all afternoon. Not that she always won. Once, when she picked "Scipio," I followed her advice and we both lost when the animal ran second. But by the ninth she had five winners and "Scipio" for a second. Mike was busy over the form sheet, trying to climb out of a ten dollar hole, while I, who had taken the right advice all at the wrong times, had pretty much given...
Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Lina Aymaro, Melchiore Luise, Scipio Colombo Juan Oncina; Vienna Chamber Chorus and State Opera Orchestra conducted by Argeo Quadri; Westminster, 2 LPs). This was Donizetti's 63rd opera, and it is a charmer with a quenchless flow of melody and fun involving the usual opéra bouffe case of mistaken identity. Beautifully sung and played, and resonantly recorded...
...Contrary to common belief, Julius Caesar was born the normal way. The operation got its name because Roman law, which became Lex Caesare, required it to be performed as a last resort. Most noted Caesarean offspring in fact: Scipio Africanus. In fiction: Macduff...
...splattered echo of the great Roman general, Scipio Africanus, who defeated Hannibal at Zama (202 B.C.) and was Roman proconsul in Spain. When the Roman Senate accused Scipio and his brother of accepting bribes and misappropriating funds, he tore up the account books in question, flung them on the floor of the Senate, and went into embittered exile. On his tomb, he ordered the inscription: "Ingrata patria, ne ossa quidem habebis [Ungrateful fatherland, you shall not have even my bones...