Word: lire
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...Christmastime. Some 21 million Italians received a total of $9.2 billion tredicesimas last week, and few would be so un-Italian as to save a lira of it. Instead, the windfall will go for pasta, parmigiano and panettone, and for spumante and sambuca to grace their holiday tables. Any lire left over will be spent on gifts and celebratory sprees...
Agca had substantial cash in his pockets when arrested: $380 in Italian lire and another $50 in Swiss francs, and his travels had not been cheap. Who was supporting him-or might he have supported himself, as other terrorists have, with robberies? If his assassination attempt was ideological, what had Turkey's rightists, or for that matter Habash's P.F.L.P., to gain from the death of a Pope...
...salon; closed-circuit television brought the auction to four smaller rooms and the nearby Westbury Hotel ballroom for the overflow. As Wilson proceeded to knock down one record price after another, the dizzying figures were flashed on an electronic board above him in pounds, U.S. dollars, French francs, Italian lire, West German deutsche marks, Japanese yen and Swiss francs...
Give them 1.6 billion lire...
Some weeks later, the duke goes to Maurizio's tobacco shop to deliver 800 million lire ($925,000) in ransom. Soon Giovanna is released and reunited with her parents. They sing the triumphant trio Alfin ci ritroviam! (At last we are reunited!). The Chorus then sings the plaintive Benche liberata sia, Daniel ha rapito il suo cuore ribelle (Though freed is she, Daniel has kidnaped her rebellious heart). The police raid Maurizio's apartment, and he is carted...