Word: di
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both hands for shots on his right side. Pancho Segura's two-fisted attack is less complicated, more spectacular. He uses both hands for both forehand and backhand (with a singlehanded follow-through on his backhand). Instead of slapping the ball, as Bromwich does, Pancho swings like Joe Di Maggio...
GlAN GlACOMO DI MONSALVO Washington...
...tall young man stepped into the sunlight from the cavernous door of Fort Toselli above the unfinished cemetery. He was Prince Amadeo di Savoia, Duke of Aosta, Governor General of Italian East Africa, Viceroy of Ethiopia, and he had spent the night all alone in this echoing fort deep in the mountains of the Empire Rome had sent him to rule...
...most thrilling account of it appeared in Italy. All Rome papers announced that he was seriously ill, that doctors had been summoned to the White House, that the entire nation was disturbed. Finally the Italian papers had the President confined to a casa di salute-roughly, a place where people go to get over a nervous breakdown...
...Eleazar López Contreras. Not only did Dr. López refuse to be a candidate, but he resisted a great deal of pressure to run for a second term and even refused to give his blessing to a candidate to succeed him. Between Ambassador to the U.S. Diógenes Escalante and General Isaias Medina, who resigned as War Minister to push his candidacy, Congress was expected this week to choose the more colorful General. To a people grown wary of generals dur ing the 27-year (1908-35) rule of Dictator Juan Vicente Gómez, General...