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Word: fortunati (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PLAIN PEOPLE: The Senate's Army | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

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