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Word: coggia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1933-1933
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Last week a lean, ragged, jabbering man fell on his knees before the village church at Coggia. A cross dangled on his chest, a crude crown of twigs sat on his tangled hair. Hoarse with a stale fear, he shouted. "What have I done?" A peasant saw that it was Andre Spada, alone and half-witted. Peasants tugged at his elbow to make him rise and hide from the police. Spada pushed them away, rose and wandered about in a daze, jabbering to himself until gendarmes took him away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Capture of Spada | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

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