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Word: crispino (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only private farm lands were seized. Near the much-bombed village of Monte Libretti, the Government owned a 2,000-hectare farm for breeding and training army mounts, and for the general improvement of horses in Latium. The farm caught the eye of Crispino Ottavi, Communist president of the Monte Libretti Labor Federation. Ottavi is a tall, immensely powerful man, with big boxer's arms. He wears outsize brown riding boots, checked breeches, U.S. Army sweaters. He has a sunburnt bull neck, small, calculating, brown eyes set in a network of humorous wrinkles. For Monte Libretti's poor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Land for a Song | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

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