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Word: biggie (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...Candlelight. Last week Christian Democrat Federico Biggi, a lawyer and Latin professor in his spare time, called his followers together over a secret dinner of lasagna. roast chicken and Chianti in a small restaurant in the Italian seaside town of Rimini. Dinner over, Biggi and his lieutenants slipped furtively back into San Marino, called their followers together and passed out a formidable armory of ancient muskets, hunting rifles and outmoded carbines. Then they holed up in an abandoned iron foundry only 50 yards from the Italian border, and on a rickety table lighted by a candle stuck in a bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAN MARINO: World's Smallest Crisis | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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