Word: lic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first in Italy to be anti-Mussolini. As a boy in the Romagna, short, roly-poly Adone Zoli took a particular dislike to one of his schoolmates, a pushy youngster from a neighboring farm, Benny Mussolini. Even after the pushy youngster became the Duce, Zoli persisted in his pub lic contempt for Mussolini's ideas, invariably had his suits made without lapel buttonholes so that he would have no place to wear the Fascist emblem. His anti-Fascist activities almost cost Zoli his life -after his 1943 arrest he was condemned to death by a Fascist court...
...peddler is not the only one concerned with the effect of the modern machine. Senator McCarthy has already suggested that the Lic Detector replace certain public officials in the examination of accused Army men. Many experts have joined with the Senator in heralding the new trend. Robert L. Skinner of Pierson comments, "It will be a glorious day when the machines of science can judge in the Courts, in the Jailhouses, in the Government, in the Committees...