Word: aula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dramatic decision came when the 235 Jesuit fathers, gathered from 80 nations, were about to enter their third and final month of deliberations in the horseshoe-shaped aula at the order's headquarters palazzo in Rome. The delegates, many of them wearing turtleneck sweaters or loud ties instead of clerical black, cast their votes by punching buttons on their desks that registered placet (it pleases) or non placet on an electronic Scoreboard behind the dais...