Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite these feats of leadership, the farmers feared the worst. It looked as if Thanksgiving would be cranberryless for thousands-except laboratory rats. And they, like the growers, had little to be thankful...
Throughout, the Soviet government maintained a discreet silence. Remarked the press attache of the Russian embassy in Rome: "We have no comment-except that Italians talk too much...
...decaying, slate-roofed houses, without telephones, cars or even a policeman. Life has changed little since Genoese Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World, creating a path that many Italians have followed since. The people of San Marco live mainly on chestnuts and vegetables, seldom taste meat, except on four feast days each year. Last week the dour and cagey villagers danced self-consciously in the streets before the cameras that had come to record the biggest event ever to take place in San Marco d'Urri...
Last week the plan's Consultative Committee met in Jogjakarta, Indonesia. That aging nationalist spellbinder, President Sukarno, opened the session with an oration proclaiming that Asians should reject everything from the West except its money. Asian as well as non-Asian delegates found Sukarno's program dated tiresome and useless. "The time has come for us to think less of the colonial past and more of what tasks in fact lie ahead of us," said Ceylon's Finance Minister Stanley de Zoysa, to the biggest applause of the session...
...nightclubs. But in modern Italy a priest watching a soccer match-much less a floor show or a movie-is out of bounds. Priests must always wear their cassocks in public, are not supposed to smoke on the street or push baby carriages or carry large parcels, ride horseback except in rural areas, or eat alone at first-class restaurants. A priest should not be seen walking often with the same female-even his aged aunt-and a priest's female housekeeper must be at least 40, the "canon age" prescribed by canon...