Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alexander Passerin d'Entreves, Serena Professor of Italian Studies at the University of Oxford, will replace Carl J. Friedrich, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, as instructor in Government 106b next spring. Friedrich will be on leave of absence in Europe...
Much of d'Entreves' writing has been done in Italian, both in books and periodicals, and he has been a regular contributor to many British political and historical magazines...
...bomber base for the invasion of southern France. They ran up against the malaria that infested the coastal marshes and that throughout history has kept invaders back and the islanders down. Thereafter, by one of the most intensive campaigns ever waged against malaria, U.S. and Italian DDT teams banished the anopheles mosquito that had helped stunt the development of a people long accounted the smallest of Italians. Since 1950 there has not been a single new case of malaria in Sardinia...
...most scratched out a lean living by herding (or stealing) sheep in the mountains by winter, hoeing a few acres in summer in the lowlands. After 20 centuries, Sardinia may once again win a name as Rome's granary. Already the fund's crewcut, sports-jacketed young Italian engineers are saying that after the Flumendosa Valley is remade, underpopulated Sardinia may be able to absorb thousands of Italy's mainland unemployed...
...Yevgeny Klevtsov grabbed a machine designed to test his grip, squeezed the needle right off the dial and immediately began bawling for a meter that could show just how strong he really was. The grind had hardly begun when a member of the Polish emigre team tried to bump Italian Ace Dino Bruni into the gutter. Bruni kept his balance, but one of his volatile teammates unfastened his bicycle pump and bent it over the Pole's head. Out of Lodz, hell-bent for Stalingrod in the fourth lap, the pack got handlebars tangled, and 25 riders dived into...