Word: franco
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...likes to see the Dr. J who could not hit a jumper to save his life, the Larry Bird who scores 49 points one night and 7 the next, the Jim Palmer who could not strike out a spring training scrub or the Franco Harris who ended his career rather inauspiciously in Seattle, far away from...
...Rabbi Riccardo Pacifici risked his life by staying in Genoa after its occupation by German troops to minister to the city's large Jewish refugee population; he was one of some 7,000 Italian Jews to die in concentration camps. Carlo Schonheit, a cantor from Ferrara, and his son Franco were among the handful who survived Buchenwald, the horrors of which Alexander Stille describes with chilling understatement. Pietro Cardinal Boetto, the frail Archbishop of Genoa, unhesitatingly agreed to carry on the work of a Jewish relief organization after it was forced to disband. "They are innocents," he told his secretary...
...Senior Franco Bessagio captured second place in the tournament, but was forced to fence under stress. Bessagio, who was running late for his GREs, abandoned his usually patient style for aggression...
...could go and make a living playing bridge, it would be fantastic!" says Franco M. Baseggio '92, the president of the club. "I will probably play bridge regularly for the rest of my life--it's that...
...basis of the proposed army is a 4,200-troop Franco-German brigade based near Stuttgart that can barely be called a joint force. Its soldiers carry different rifles, wear their own national uniforms and operate in separate battalions. Expanding so fractious a concept to an army corps of about 35,000 to 40,000 soldiers could take years. Creating a full army could take a generation. By that time, with any luck, it will no longer be needed...