Word: di
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MARIA CROCIFISSA DI ROSA (1813-55) left convent school at 17 to take over her wealthy father's silk factory at Brescia, Italy, where she saw to the spiritual and material welfare of the workers. In the cholera epidemic of 1836 she nursed the sick, which led to her foundation of the Servants of Charity...
Some healers, at least, may have unusual powers, suggested Italy's Professor Emilio Servadio. Patients treated by the Mago di Napoli, who is raking in $4,000 a week in Rome (TIME, Feb. 23, 1953), always spoke of feeling a current of air when the healer raised his hands. So Servadio lured the Mago into a laboratory with concealed anemometers. He found to his amazement that when the Mago raised his hands, he displaced a column of air four feet across...
...world of 1954 is di-polar, with two opposing super states. Smaller powers can no longer afford to stand alone, for they are comparatively defenseless. Nor can they contribute to a balance of power or serve as a "third force." Instead, they must seek safety in numbers. The results of this drive for security are regional organizations such as NATO and the Organization of American States. But no such arrangement exists in Asia...
S/Sgt. WILLIAM K. Di MARZO U.S.A.F. Greenville...
Each fact of Davison's genius was well illustrated. Eight of his own arrangements--four folk songs and four G. and S. choruses--showed a freshness and brightness that invite but defy imitation. Canto di Caccia and Tu Mi Vuoi were particularly effective, with their alternate blending and contrasting of voice parts...