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Word: italian (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Candlelight. Last week Christian Democrat Federico Biggi, a lawyer and Latin professor in his spare time, called his followers together over a secret dinner of lasagna. roast chicken and Chianti in a small restaurant in the Italian seaside town of Rimini. Dinner over, Biggi and his lieutenants slipped furtively back into San Marino, called their followers together and passed out a formidable armory of ancient muskets, hunting rifles and outmoded carbines. Then they holed up in an abandoned iron foundry only 50 yards from the Italian border, and on a rickety table lighted by a candle stuck in a bottle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SAN MARINO: World's Smallest Crisis | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...British press urged a pooling of Western brains and know-how to meet the Soviet challenge. Italian newspapers took a similar stand...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Russian U.N. Delegation Declines U.S. Proposals of Missile Control; European Press Eases Up on U.S. | 10/11/1957 | See Source »

Within an area smaller than Cambridge, these men are fighting bitterly for the right to rule fewer people than populate this University. The Communist force atop Mt. Titano claims virtual control of the country, while the anti-Reds, holed up near the Italian border, maintain that the Communists hold power solely through force, fear, destruction, and fraud...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Contested Ground | 10/9/1957 | See Source »

Proxy Marriage Revealed. Sophia Loren (under her real name, Sofia Scicolone), 23, sultry Italian cinemactress; and her discoverer, Italian Producer Carlo Ponti, 44; she for the first time, he for the second; through their attorneys (she was in Hollywood, he in Rome) two weeks ago; in Juarez, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 7, 1957 | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...same basic structure applies to all the introductory language courses given. A student who cannot pass the language requirement at entrance must enter the elementary course in one of the twelve modern language (French, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, German, Russian, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Burmese, Thai, and Vietnamese) offered at the University, though he may be accelerated into the second half of these courses if his past training warrants...

Author: By Kenneth Auchincloss, | Title: Languages Program At Cornell Stresses Native Environment | 10/5/1957 | See Source »

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