Word: martina
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Army infield of Gene Fisher at first base, Art Martina at second, Mike Conrad at short, and Joe Cygler at third is considered one of the weakest West Point infields of recent years, averaging six errors a game. Army's hitting is also poor, with cleanup batter and end left fielder Ralph Cheanauskan the only 300 hitter on the squad. Chesnauskas, a regular football tackle, missed the first two baseball games because of spring football practice, and has added a great deal of power to the Cadet attack since his return...
Troublesome Tunes. Gioconda de Vito was born in the south Italian hill town of Martina Franca, locally famed for its bandits, where her father was a well-to-do owner of vineyards. Music was in the air, and she was picking out tunes on the mandolin before she was four, soon switched to the violin. Curiously, she could not (and still cannot) carry a tune. This failure almost cost her the chance to study at the Pesaro conservatory, but her fiddling got her by, and in two years she had carried away all available prizes...
Business Is Business. In Mons, Belgium, arrested for selling his wife Anna, his three children, his household furnishings and his house to Jiacomo Martina for 24,000 francs ($480), Emilio Rondoti was freed by the local judge, but ordered to pay court costs...
...blow them all to kingdom come with a trench mortar. Eight men were accused and quickly convicted: Antonio Riva, wealthy, high-living Italian trader who once boasted he could do business under any kind of Chinese regime, and Ruichi Yamaguchi, a scholarly Japanese bookseller-death; Italian Bishop Tarcisio Martina, 64, longtime head of the Roman Catholic diocese of Yihsien in Hopei province-life imprisonment; four foreign-born old China hands and one Chinese businessman-prison terms ranging from five to ten years...
...time . . . attempted to assassinate or contrive the assassination of anyone." The real moral of the story is as plain as Mao meant it to be: outsiders are no longer safe in Red China. Riva and Yamaguchi are the first foreigners to be sentenced to death as counterrevolutionaries, while Bishop Martina is the first Catholic clergyman to be sentenced to life in prison. He is fairly big game, as acting representative in Peking for Archbishop Antonio Riberi, papal internuncio for China, who is under house arrest in Nanking...