Word: amerigo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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QUEEN VIKING-GREY VIKING, entry will discover the finish wire first, AMERIGO HILL will be out run, early and close with a rush, BAR TAB has beaten cheaper...
...Died. Amerigo Dumini, 74, Italian Fascist gangster and organizer of the 1924 murder of a Socialist deputy that almost toppled Mussolini's young regime; in Rome. Soon after accusing Il Duce's government of corruption, Deputy Giacomo Matteotti was kidnaped and beaten to death. The killing produced such a violent public outcry that Dumini was finally arrested and convicted, but let off with a few months' sentence-which grew to 30 years when he was retried, for murder...
...laborious immigration and secret-police screenings by Mexican authorities. Some, like Carmichael, flew to Prague or Moscow and then to Havana. Others worked their way to the Yucatan, and were whisked by special undercover "fishing fleets" across the 125-mile Yucatan Channel to Cuba. A Venezuelan guerrilla leader named Amerigo Martin even went so far as to travel to Colombia and sign aboard a boat bound for Spain, where he evidently planned to fly to Eastern Europe and then to Cuba; en route, however, his boat docked in Venezuela, and police-tipped off-picked him up along with his aide...
...Never is Charlie Brown called Charlie! It's like writing Amerigo when you mean Amerigo Vespucci, like saying Edna for Edna St. Vincent Millay. It's like saying Ponce or Genghis or Pontius. Good grief...
...Mozambique by the president of Portugal, Americo Thomas, Sigauke slipped out of Lourenco Marques and across the border into Swaziland where he was met by Frelimo agents. A few days later Sigauke and his friends daringly recrossed the border and stood smiling in a crowd of African peasants as Amerigo Thomas rode past. "Of course we could have shot him," said Sigauke...