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Word: barbanera (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1948-1948
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...Quirinal Palace left Italians cautiously optimistic. In a fashionable church in the Corso d'ltalia a pale-faced friar exclaimed: "No miracle is impossible to God. It is not impossible for God to lift the angry clouds that hang so heavily on 1948's beginning." Barbanera (Black-beard), a popular almanac of astrology, predicted for 1948: "Unsuccessful diplomatic encounters . . . conflict avoided in the nick of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: Year of the Mouse | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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