Word: alexandria
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Donnybrook Estates. In Alexandria, La., six house wreckers showed up at the home of Paul Davis, removed half the roof, most of the upper story and the front porch before Davis arrived and told them that they were tearing down the wrong house...
...Alexandria, Egypt...
JUSTINE, by Lawrence Durreli. Not to the taste of every literary palate but a special delight for those who can savor the sensuous, the sensual and the unsavory all at once. The heroine is a sex-surfeited Jewess in Alexandria who does not understand herself, in or out of bed. The reward for the reader is an unforgettable impression of both the oddly exciting and sordid sides of a Near Eastern city...
...Alexandria...
Icecaps can be cozy. Last week Arctic Expert Robert Philippe, recuperating in Alexandria, Va. from an airplane crackup, told how the Army engineers make themselves comfortable in Greenland's icy interior. Instead of fighting polar blizzards on the surface of the icecap, they dodge them by burrowing into the ice, just as many Arctic animals find shelter under the snow...