Word: fascistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...writer in Hungary today. In his best-known book, The Unfound Phrase, Dery expounded his own political philosophy in the fictional terms of a wealthy Budapest lawyer who turned to Communism as his nation's only hope. Too incendiary for publication in the days of the prewar Horthy fascist dictatorship, it was circulated widely in manuscript before going to press ten years later...
...aviation pioneer, whose first 1912 Caproni monoplane set speed, altitude and distance records; of a heart attack; in Rome. Builder (in 1914) of the first multimotored airplanes to stay aloft, Caproni converted them to bombers, prospered during World War I on the side of the Allies, later became a Fascist and provided Mussolini with planes for his Ethiopian raids...
...Paris during the '30s, Bovet had met Filomena Nitti. daughter of the exiled anti-Fascist ex-Premier of Italy, Francesco Nitti. "I proposed immediately," says Bovet. "It was a lightning chemical reaction." Since then, with time out for three children, Filomena Bovet-Nitti has helped her husband in all his work. In 1947, Bovet moved from the Pasteur Institute to Rome's Istituto, which was able to offer him better facilities. The husband-wife team's current preoccupation: the chemistry of the brain, especially as it is influenced by mental illness and by drugs such...
...agreed that suffrage in Algeria should continue to be weighted in favor of Europeans. At week's end, declaring that "it is impossible for me to make further concessions," the weary Premier shut off debate and demanded a vote of confidence on the loi-cadre this week. "Fascist!" cried the Poujadists. "It takes one to tell one," rejoined Bourgès-Maunoury...
...professor related that one night, while he was attending a movie, the loudspeaker interrupted the show with the following official announcement: "The government wishes to announce the successful crushing of the counter-revolutionary and Fascist elements in Hungary and the restoration of the People's Government...