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Word: borgian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Rome's Quirinale Palace last week. There was practically no difference between this Cabinet and the last, which fell 33 days before. Nonetheless, Italy applauded, and the Milan stock market surged to a new three-year high. Italians rightly understood that Premier Moro had triumphed over a positively Borgian plot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: A Fine Italian Hand | 3/4/1966 | See Source »

...Borgian Penumbra. Brilliant, left-wing Laborite Richard Grossman retorted caustically that McCarthyism "arises in countries when people outside suspect that the security arrangements required of the small fry are not maintained so severely at the very top." Citing the Burgess-MacLean case, Grossman charged that the government had shied away from a thorough investigation in order to "cover up" higher officials who, "if the truth had come out, would have had to go." Said he: "Now exactly the same thing seems to be happening in the Admiralty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Great Britain: The Smell of Treason | 11/23/1962 | See Source »

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