Word: fortunati
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After she has studied at the School of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, her superiors send her to the Belgian Congo as a nurse, where she is assigned to work with a character called Dr. Fortunati (Peter Finch), who is described with Gothic horror as "a genius and a devil" but turns out to look like nothing worse than Alan Ladd with eyebrows. "Don't ever think for an instant," Sister Luke is warned, "that your habit will protect you." After teasing this tedious notion about for the better part of an hour, the script clumsily returns to its proper...
...citizenship after five years, and it brought a new flood of applications to U.S. embassies from Copenhagen to Rome. Said a Frankfurt student: "Deutschland ist kaputt. I'll take any chance to get out." In Rome, mechanics, priests, ex-soldiers tried to join up. Beetle-browed, thickset Luigi Fortunati stated bluntly: "I don't have a job and don't see any opportunity ahead. I want to become an American." An ex-French Foreign Legionnaire wrote: "Only reason of request is to evade this life of a clerk which I live with much intolerance...
...Donnos, quam, ut nos sumus parati deponere, decem ad unum in equalis, illi nunquam capient laborem legere. Prope viam, appellatisne illos homires "Donnos" in America? Nos facimus. Audivimus quoque vos non habere flumen simile nostro, quod est perfecta bestia fluminis, sed unum primae classis. Per Jovem vos estis diabolice fortunati...
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