Word: 16th
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...once said. "Someone always loses it." On the last day Nagle did his best to lose when he double-bogeyed the 15th hole, taking four to get down from a trap off the green. That gave Player a three-stroke lead-which he politely relinquished by three-putting the 16th. After 18, they were all even with a 72-hole total of 282-two over par. Playoff...
Adopting the Habsburgs. Of course, many other nations suffer from crawling bureaucracy, but Italy's problem is on the scale of Michelangelo's David or the triumphal march in Aïda. Barzini traces its origins back to the 16th and 17th centuries, when together with so many other of Italian society's "baroque" characteristics, it was imported by Italy's hated Spanish Habsburg rulers, and then adopted and glorified by the natives. Nowadays most Italians consider the archvillains to be the bureaucrats themselves. They have come to be known as i burosauri, a name derived...
...members in a traditional stronghold of Roman Catholicism, Italy's Protestants have had a long and painful struggle to gain the right to worship freely. Until 1848, the 35,000 Waldensians-descendants of a breakaway Catholic sect that was excommunicated in 1184, and turned Protestant in the 16th century-were forbidden to attend universities, practice law or medicine, or open new churches. The unification of Italy brought an invasion of Methodist and Baptist missionaries from Britain and the U.S., but Mussolini's 1929 agreement with the Vatican made Catholicism the state church, and Fascist laws strictly curtailed Protestants...
...packed. So were the press gallery, the visitors' gallery, diplomatic and Commonwealth galleries. The floor of the House of Commons was S.R.O.-as it must be, whenever the 630 Members of Parliament want to assemble, since the House still contains only enough seats to comfortably accommodate its 16th century membership of about 450. Everyone had gathered for the debate on Harold Wilson's White Paper proposing a $1.5 billion nationalization of the steel industry (TIME...
...asking that people who sold Texas Gulf stock directly to "insiders"--officers, directors, and major stock-holders--be reimbursed. But for the period from April 12 until the April 16th announcement, the SEC is asking that anyone who sold the stock be reimbursed...