Word: maying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...find Lucia Ladanca's name in TIME'S May 30 issue, you had to read most of the way through a seven-column Foreign News story on Italy. At that point the story said: "The most disturbing economic fact of [Premier Alcide] de Gasperi's Italy is the almost hopeless poverty of such people as hunchbacked Lucia Ladanca, a Potenza housewife who lives with her tuberculous husband and eight-year-old son Bruno in a fetid tenement not far from well-stocked stores...
...incident to write us for Mrs. Ladanca's address, which our bureau in Rome supplied. Others wanted Bruno's measurements so they could send him shoes and clothing. A fortnight ago Correspondent George Jones, of our Rome bureau, visited Lucia Ladanca, and his cabled account, which follows, may serve as one illustration of the effect of American aid to Europeans...
...military force in the history of the world . . . The combination of ... a huge aggressive force on one side and admittedly inadequate defense forces on the other has created a morbid and pervasive sense of insecurity in Western Europe. The fear is justified. The danger is real, however much some may try to argue it out of existence...
...proposed conference would "explore how far their peoples, and other democracies whom the convention may invite to send delegates, can apply between them, within the framework of the United Nations, the principles of free federal union...
Ever since her duel with Chinese Communist shore batteries off Rose Island (TIME, May 2), the shell-pocked British frigate Amethyst had been blockaded 140 miles up the Yangtze River from Shanghai, with 86 men of her original crew of 192 still aboard. The Communists kept 105-mm. howitzers constantly trained on the Amethyst at a murderous 400-yard range. The colonel commanding the batteries had warned the Amethyst's captain: "If you move, I'll sink you instantly...