Word: capodistria
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...Egyptian Jewess; Nessim, her millionaire husband; Melissa, a tubercular Greek dancer. There is also an assortment of other exotics, who seem to have crawled from beneath a blistered and immemorial stone of Alexandria-Scobie, the transvestite policeman; Toto de Brunei, who dies with a hatpin rammed through his brain; Capodistria, the goatish sybarite; hare-lipped Narouz, who carries a severed head in his saddlebag; Pursewarden, who has discovered "the uselessness of having opinions" and turns to the humdrum world "the sort of smile which might have hardened on the face of a dead baby...
Twisted Roads. While Justine is in the process of finding herself, those around her are losing their heads. Her complaisant husband goes quietly mad: her current lover, an itinerant Irish schoolmaster, betrays a tubercular girl friend and she dies; her first seducer, Capodistria, whose memory has obsessed her all along, is brutally murdered. In the end, Justine flees to a kibbutz in Palestine, where she becomes fat, competent and, presumably, content...
...many as we are, we all go, or nobody goes." To those who tried to pay him (the standard border-running price is $160), Carmelo laughed and said softly, "You'll need it later. Come on, let's go." Once, in the troop-infested area around Capodistria, Carmelo and his refugees were sweating out the arrival of nightfall in a cottage when there came a knock at the door. Carmelo ordered the refugees out the back window, calmly opened the door, tossed out a grenade, slammed the door and escaped through the back window himself. To a father...
Safe in Sicily. Said 50-year-old Luigi Crevatini on finding that his house was on the wrong side of the frontier: "Until 1944 I lived in Fiume. Then I saw how things were going, and I moved to Capo-distria. When Capodistria became Zone
Drafted in secret by American, British, and Yugoslav experts, the proposal that Dulles presented would give Zone A, including the city itself, to Italy. In return, Tito would build himself another port at the city of Capodistria, further south, with the United States, Britain and France paying the bill...
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