Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people in the world, these gains were tempered by fresh evidence of the deep-rooted suspicion of the U.S. which many a European still nourishes. In the week that the first shipload of Friendship Train supplies left for Italy, and the last U.S. troops departed from Leghorn, a striking Italian worker grumbled: "American workers are capitalists compared to us. They eat the fruit and we eat the peel...
...entry resident voiced an unusual inconvenience yesterday. "I don't mind the drilling and sawing in the early morning. I don't mind the hammering. The trouble is that the workmen tell all their jokes in Italian, and I don't understand Italian...
...stopped the orchestra, looked up a passage in the score with his nose almost touching the page, and then, his darkest suspicions confirmed, whacked the score with his baton and shouted directions to the strings. He exhorted, implored and cursed in Italian. He sang a troublesome passage for the orchestra in his croaky voice. When the chorus mumbled, he said sharply, in Italianized English that was hard to understand: "Let me hear the words. There is not a word that has no meaning." For an erring violinist, he indulged his own brand of humor: "If you play that wrong Saturday...
...Live In Peace. A pastoral tragicomedy about an Italian peasant plowed under by history (TIME...
Here G.E. will fill a need that can be made the more clear by a brief study of the lax rules for distribution of courses. An undergraduate may take a year of geography, Italian history, and Fine Arts and have a broad enough knowledge to graduate from Harvard...