Word: scyllas
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Himself a little man, born at Scylla, not far from mythical Charybdis, in the Straits of Messina, he had long tossed between the rock of poverty and the whirlpool of Fascist repression. Until the blackshirts fell, he had eked out an existence as a statistician. Then, on Columbus Day, 1944, he had rediscovered America for his countrymen...
Never intended for bobsleds, the Cresta Run is not "a downhill straightaway" [TIME, Jan. 7], but a winding, downhill and very steep course, three-quarters of a mile long, including eleven banked curves, viz: "First Bank," "Curzon," "Thoma," "Rise," "Battledore," "Shuttlecock," "Stream Corner," "Bulpett," "Scylla," "Charybdis," "The Finish." "Battledore" and "Shuttlecock" are almost S-shaped...
...coast road; the Royal Navy ripped the highway on the island's other side. Over Messina converged the Allied air arm, bombing and gunning, by day and night, the barges and small boats shuttling Germans from Sicily to Italy, from the whirlpool of Charybdis to the rock of Scylla...
...ladies have been less abandoned in their eulogies, but even among them Miss Bergman has managed very nicely. She even got past the Scylla and Charybdis of the screen press without shipping any water: Hedda Hopper has had nothing but good to say of her, and Miss Bergman is probably the only woman in Hollywood who can say of Lolly Parsons, with transparent sincerity, that she is "really sort of sweet...
...Sicily, only to turn back at sight of 100 Roman galleys standing out from Syracusae (TIME, Ides of Maius, 211 B.C.). Bomilcar said the wind had been against him. His fellow Carthaginians knew the coward had lost the last chance to break the flow of Roman strength where Scylla & Charybdis guard the narrow straits between Messana and Rhegium on the mainland...