Word: trafalgar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Civilianizing. "What a way to treat the navy!" cried London's jingoist tabloid Daily Sketch. A Daily Mail cartoon showed Admiral Nelson atop his Trafalgar Square roost dressed in top hat, striped trousers and cutaway coat. But Tory anger in Commons was stayed by the realization that Britain could either cooperate or go on cutting off the flow of its lifeblood oil at Suez. Lord Hailsham, quieter in London than he was in Port Said, said: "We will civilianize the whole fleet if necessary...
...they headed their frail caravels toward the edge of the world. "Because it looketh down upon hell," others replied-and yet they all sailed on across the fearful horizon seeking glory, God and gold. Royal Britain sounded the fanfare, demolishing the Spanish Armada in 1588, dashing France off Cape Trafalgar in 1805, ushering in Pax Britannica with its Mediterranean life line-Gibraltar, Malta, Suez-and its rich markets for the Industrial Revolution. "Talk of fun!" Winston Churchill cried beside the Nile. ''Where will you beat this? On horseback, at daybreak, within shot of an advancing army, seeing everything...
...When he died in 1805 on the deck of his Victory after Trafalgar, Lord Nelson was deposited in a cask of brandy for the long trip home. The legend that sailors tapped the cask and drank off the brandy is apparently apocryphal...
...second day in town, still carefully guarded by a detachment of two motorcycle policemen and a squad car, Malenkov drove through the West End to see the sights. As they approached Trafalgar Square, the busiest crossroads in London, the police swung around one way as had been planned, but instead of following them, Malenkov's ZIS swung off the other way. There was a squealing of brakes as his guards discovered the wile, but when at last they caught up, there was Malenkov, unprotected in the middle of London's surging crowds. He had been told, he said...
...wolf dog that had fallen through. An R.A.F. helicopter winged its way across Suffolk to rescue icebound swans, and a Mrs. Phyllis Buckle, 57, of London did her bit by carrying 6 Ibs. of corn, two loaves of bread and a hot-water bottle to the pigeons huddling in Trafalgar Square...