Word: italian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colonel McGowan. When France fell in June 1940, Ambassador Bullitt returned to the U.S., and Murphy became the top-ranking American in a France divided between the German occupation in the North and the Vichy French government in the South. Main aim of U.S. policy: to keep the German-Italian Axis out of strategic French North Africa. In December 1940, Murphy went to Algiers, negotiated a deal with the Vichy authorities to supply them with U.S. economic aid and U.S. "technical assistants," soon took charge of an expanding North African intelligence network. North Africa began Murphy's cloakand-dagger...
...speech received generally good notices and in some cases enthusiastic applause. In Britain the liberal Manchester Guardian called Ike's proposals "a hopeful development." Italy's non-Communist papers hailed them as "noble and generous," smugly hinted that the President had got many of his ideas from Italian Premier Amintore Fanfani during Fanfani's recent visit to Washington. In Norway a government spokesman thought the U.S. program might prove "as beneficial as the Marshall Plan...
While rubbernecking in Manhattan in his billowy red robes of office and a three-cornered black hat, the Lord Mayor of Bristol, England, Fitzroy Chamberlain, dropped an unlikely footnote to history. Historians, said he, are hopelessly unjust in attributing the name America to Italian Mapmaker and Merchant Amerigo Vespucci (1451-1512). The eponym in truth: a fine English lad named Richard Amerycke. In the Bristol view of history, Amerycke, a customs collector, saw to it that Italian Explorer John Cabot, who discovered Cape Breton Island in 1497 and claimed it for the British crown, received a pension from King Henry...
...best friend's wallflower daughter. (Coos Kay: "I do think she's wise not dancing all the time.") Instead, Sandra obstinately falls for a bounder (John Saxon). "First of all," says a friend in explaining Saxon's shortcomings, "he's half Italian." Second of all, he plays the drums in a society orchestra, and third, he is given to vividly detailed descriptions of African fertility dances...
...that could not afford to set up plants for any one of the six nations alone can well afford to do it for the whole market, have discovered that U.S. methods of mass production and efficiency give them a big advantage. Sprague Electric bought a majority interest in an Italian capacitor firm in 1956, doubled sales by indoctrinating the workers with U.S. methods...