Word: ceci
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pronounce a b, an Arab a p, a Russian an h, a Frenchman a th. In the Sicilian Vespers of 1282, when Sicilians rebelled against their Angevin overlords, those suspected of being Frenchmen were forced, in an irresistible repeat of the Biblical shibboleth, to repeat the Italian phrase ceci e ciceri, and slaughtered when they could not manage the Italian ch sound...
...President in a pre-dawn coup. Prosperous (from cattle and other private interests) and powerful, Chichi was content to stay in the background until this year. Then he put a trusted subordinate in command of the police and ran for President. His lively brunette wife Cecilia, known as "Ceci" to most Panamanians, stumped the country for him by plane, jeep, boat, oxcart, and on foot. "I never wanted to be President, but I have to do away with this anarchy," said Chichi...
...Cousinly Campaign. The republic's nine major parties split, regrouped and came back with five backing Chichi and four supporting Sugar Producer Roberto ("Nino") Chiari, who, as it happens, is Chichi's cousin. "Ceci" Remón made herself Chichi's campaign manager, stumping the country making speeches and giving away cooking pots, packets of seed and bottles of medicine, all bearing plugs for Remón. Chiari warned voters against a military man; Remón countered that a highly respected general name of Eisenhower was running for President in a country to the north...