Word: heavenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thank heaven the small cars are coming back again. In 1949 we finally got our first new car-a Plymouth club coupé. Now, ten years and three children later, we still have the same wonderful little car. We figure that if we hang on to the old '49er a while longer, it will be right back in style again. Hurray for the compact car with the nice price, power-nothing, and the good old stick shift...
Later, in Rome's Queen of Heaven jail, Lepori told his story: a onetime member of Italy's proud carabinieri, he had been released from a mental hospital during World War II to fight in the Italian army. After the war, the Defense Ministry gave him a job chopping wood and raking leaves in his native Sardinia. Last year, still suffering from his old mental illness, Lepori decided to retire-only to discover that he had not been on the ministry's permanent rolls and, after 15 years as a "temporary laborer," was not entitled...
...matter how rich I was"), and as a Naples bus driver, a laughing hedonist who has developed a talent for catching and lifting girls' skirts in the bus's snapping-jaw folding doors. Since it is the bus driver's conviction that the routes of heaven are not to be found by following a regular schedule, he is always ready to swerve off course to answer the invitational glances of a lady or to chase a taxi containing his true love along a seacliff highway...
...reinforce the local clergy, will move on next month to prepare for a similar blitz effort in neighboring Nicaragua. Said President Villeda Morales: "We reiterate our determination to put into divine hands the destiny of Honduras." Pope John XXIII declared that from the new dedication "the graces of heaven have been falling in torrents on your souls...
...your deeds of kindness so ungraciously that you seem more brutal than savages." In the end, the Roman senators grow tired of old Romulus' tricks, and of his sanctimoniousness; they surround him in a fog and hack him to pieces (Duggan discards the legend that Romulus ascended to heaven in a cloud). The novel ends with the gentle Sabine Numa Pompilius taking over the vacant throne of the young city in 715 B.C. Prolific Author Duggan has a legion of books and some 1,200 years of Roman history still awaiting...