Word: theseus
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British battleship Anson, the British carriers Implacable, Victorious and Theseus, the French carrier Arromanches, three British and five French cruisers, and 21 destroyers and destroyer escorts-headed in convoy for the Bay of Biscay. Submarines launched dummy torpedoes, French and British carriers exchanged air strikes, bombers roared overhead. Meanwhile, smaller craft of the Belgian navy joined other Western Union ships in mine-sweeping operations in Weymouth...
...necessary armaments to ward off an attacking Greek army. As long as Hippolyta wears her golden girdle, the women will rule. So the Greeks send Hercules to challenge the Queen in combat and get that girdle. Hoppolyta gives it to Antiope, the mighty huntress, who loses it to Theseus, the handsome Greek warrior, while learning how a man makes love. Sapiens, let loose in the Greek camp, discovers his manhood, asserts his authority as king, and establishes for all time the dominance of masculinity...
While the Metropolitan orchestra placidly unfolded the famed "heavenly lengths" of Schubert's Seventh Symphony, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo toe-danced the Greek legend of Theseus killing the virgin-devouring Minotaur, and finding his way out of the monster's labyrinth by following Ariadne's thread. Against Dali's brightly painted, more or less relevant backgrounds, the confused milling of the lavishly costumed Greeks, pigeons, roosters, dolphins and waves did little credit to the Ballet Russe's seasoned choreographer, Leoride Massine...
Died. Sir Arthur Evans. 90, the British archeologist whose excavations in Cretan pasturelands uncovered the wholly forgotten Minoan civilization and pushed the frontiers of Aegean history back 2,000 years; in Oxford, England. At Knossos he unearthed the labyrinth made famous by Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur; reconstructed the Palace of Minos complete with murals, plumbing and sunken bathtubs; found evidence that the 2,000-year-old kingdom was overthrown suddenly by seaborne invaders who took the city by surprise and burned the palace...