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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...learn of your nomination as the parish priest of Affrico . . ." They sent a delegation to him, and another to the Catholic authorities in Bologna. On their weather-beaten, 17th Century church and on the rocky mountain road they put up big signs: "Affrico wants Don Giorgio . . . Don Giorgio, come back to your parish." Said a burly peasant: "If Don Giorgio doesn't come back, the carabinieri had better get themselves a barracks up here...
...CHESF's engineers, as to most Brazilians, Paulo Afonso's progress is a matter of national pride. Impatient at the delay in getting heavy earth-moving equipment over back roads, CHESF's shirtsleeved, roly-poly President Jose Antonio Alves de Souza told his men to go ahead without it. As his barefooted laborers struggled last week to haul rude, four-handled wooden trays of rock from the darn excavations, Alves de Souza said: "Sure, we've got too many men here now. But we can't just sit and wait for the machinery to come...
...with commerce and bulged with gold; and its beefy, bearded burghers all wanted portraits of themselves and their wives. But the aristocratic little portraitist was far from satisfied with his own work. At 19 he got admittance to the artists' Guild of Saint Luke, and at 20 went back to school, at Rubens' feet...
...that when a pregnant woman eats more than she actually needs it is because of insecurity-worry about her health, her child's health, her husband's fidelity, or fear that pregnancy will leave her less attractive. At such times, "a big chocolate fudge sundae carries her back to the carefree days of her childhood...
With a Bicycle. At Ebbets Field, a restless buzz rose from the crowd as the first two Cardinals took their turns at bat. Then a slender young man, wearing No. 6 on his back, stepped to the plate. Stan ("The Man") Musial was at bat and the crowd really let go. A hard-bitten minority booed, but they were drowned out by the cheers. It was Brooklyn's sportsmanlike tribute to one of the greatest players in the game. Stan Musial is the highest salaried (at $50,000 a year) and most feared batter in the National League...