Word: latine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EUROPE'S COMMON MARKET is running into opposition from free nations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. At annual meeting of 37-nation General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) these countries protested because common market plans to eliminate tariffs on imports from its own members' overseas territories, but maintain steep tariffs on other imports. Thus, French and Belgian territories in Africa would get much of the brisk European tea, coffee and cocoa trade now dominated by India, Ceylon, Indonesia, Brazil, Ghana...
Passers-by in the Harvard Square area were startled yesterday noon to see a noisy crowd pouring out of Harvard Stadium. The boys and girls, who carried pennants from Boston English and Boston Latin schools, had just watched English overcome an early two-touch-down Latin lead to capture the traditional contest...
Torment is a Swedish movie starring Alf Kjellin as an artistic, sensitive Scandinavian preppie who falls in love with the local tobacco shop salesgirl, played by Mai Zetterling. The third member of the tormented triangle is the boy's middle-aged, lecherous Latin teacher, a tyrant named Caligula...
...best scenes in the film center around Caligula's Latin class, and show the teacher drumming passive paraphrastics and ablative absolutes into his cowering pupils with a vengeance which would have brought joy to his namesake...
...Pierce. Fenner & Beane), and he got himself a direct commission "without the corrupting effect of any intervening naval training." He compensates for this deficiency by soaking his gold braid in brine whenever the green seems to be wearing off, and by declaring loud and often, in peculiarly defective sailor-Latin ("You're getting my bilge up!"), that a P.R.O. does just as much...