Word: lire
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...watches of their own, and since even a fishing village must move according to the relentless schedule of modern time, repairing the clock was an urgent matter. So everyone agreed when strapping, round-faced Father Bernardoni called together all parties for a raffle. The united effort yielded 70,000 lire. Then dissension began. Father Bernardoni insisted that 6,000 lire be used for parish charity which could not be delayed "because we can't let people die of hunger to have a clock a few days sooner...
...Helper of Virgins." In the whitewashed committee room, whose unpainted, rickety shutters open on to the rusty municipal balcony, Marcovaldi declared: "I suggest that the differences be met halfway. Let 3,000 lire be given to church funds and 3,000 to municipal charity...
...Saint Gotthard and Simplon tunnels to Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. Each year German coal miners and steelworkers received almost half a billion tons of Italian lemons, oranges, pears, apples, wheat flour, rice, olive oil. Italy's textile shipments reached an annual value of more than 2.5 billion lire. In return, Germany sent to Italy between 12 and 15 million tons of coal and more than half a million tons of iron and steel products...
...bumped into an Italian woman who had rushed forward to ask that her son be allowed to go to Argentina. Eva got out to help, promised that the woman's petition would be granted. Next day, as she had done in Spain, she visited public nurseries, stuck lire into grimy, outstretched hands, talked steadily about her love for children and the poor...
Everything was spic & span at No. 2 Piazza dell' Esquilino in Rome last week. Officials of the Argentine Embassy had spent 200 million lire (more than $250,000 at black-market rates) to clean and refurbish the four-story, 40-room building in honor of their house guest, Maria Eva Duarte...