Word: sirocco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their strange language, which is Semitic dashed with the flavors of Europe, they whispered in their cafés while the outrageous Englishmen bounded up & down the narrow, stepped streets of Valletta, sweated at rugger, cricket, swam in the surf. Though there was never any outburst (the warm, damp sirocco was too enervating and the Maltese were too polite), neither did there burn in Britain's amber jewel any flame of devotion to the King. Not even when, in 1921, his Majesty granted self rule (within limits). The Governors and the governed lived in separate worlds, while many...
Praising his gallantry under fire, a French naval court-martial cleared Captain Guillaume Rons Cristophe Marie Joseph Michel de Toulouse-Lautrec, commander of the destroyer Sirocco (lost at Dunkirk) and cousin of the late great, dwarfed Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, acidulous painter of fin-de-siecle France...
From East and West came the cream of the three-year-old crop: Colonel Edward Bradley's Bimelech (winner of the Preakness and Belmont Stakes), Ethel Mars's Gallahadion (who outran Big Bim to win the Kentucky Derby), Charles T. Fisher's Sirocco (who beat Bimelech by ten lengths in the Arlington Classic). But it rained, Big Bim was scratched and Charles S. Howard's Mioland, pride of the West Coast, made the other two look like plough horses. Splashing lickety-split through the mud, Mioland led all the way, finished three lengths in front...