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Word: gasparino (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, the guards at Ucci-ardone heard a cry for help from Pisciotta pere. "Gasparino is feeling bad," called the old man. "Help him in God's name." The guards arrived in time to find the young bandit writhing convulsively on his bunk. Rushed off to the prison hospital, he died some 40 minutes later. What had happened? On the face of it, nothing. Gaspare had brewed his own and his father's coffee as he did every morning. As usual, he had stirred into his own cup a spoonful of vitamin preparation. The medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Big Mouth | 2/22/1954 | See Source »

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