Word: lire
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Deductible. In Varese, Italy, thieves cracked the courthouse safe, made off with 10 million lire ($16,000) in lOUs...
...poverty-stricken southern Italy, where the government has been lavishing billions of lire on public works, that the Christian Democrats picked up almost all of their 1,500,000 new votes. There they scored heavily off the Monarchists and Neo-Fascists, who between them lost 22 of their 69 Chamber seats in the biggest slideaway of the election. Naples' swashbuckling, 70-year-old millionaire Monarchist Achille Lauro, onetime mayor of the city, was not even elected to his old Senate seat, and appeared finished as a serious political force in Italy...
...their loyalty to their queen, the gypsies could not resist doing a little business. To keep the curious even more so, they fanned romantic rumors about the queen's hidden $32,000 treasure. They also made newsmen pay for everything they got. Prices ranged from 5,000 lire ($8) for a photograph of a gypsy weeping to 50,000 lire for a closeup of the queen herself. "For only 5,000 lire more," a gold-toothed, top-hatted elder told an Italian reporter, "you may touch the queen's hand and ask her anything you wish. Of course...
...powers: "The day is over when a single cry of Au secours! put six British swimmers in the sea as one man. Any secours that's wanted can be furnished by Americans-or Russians." And one need never again dread "the anguish of handing over a fistful of lire, conscious of being done but fearful to make a scene. Make scenes. You can be mean and haggling...
Free Translation. With all his courage and steadfastness. Adnan Menderes is often a worry to Turkey's friends. Determined to remake his nation economically overnight, busy Premier Menderes has built so many dams and factories, spent so many lire, marks, dollars, pounds and francs that Turkey today has one of the world's most inflated currencies, and a credit rating so poor that even the Turkish Central Bank refuses to honor government orders to release foreign exchange. Neither near bankruptcy nor the appeals of his friends can persuade Menderes that the time has come to end his headlong...