Word: michela
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nicola's most important asset is a patch of land he can trade for a passage to Canada. He has one nubile daughter named Michela, another one named Sira, who is a mute. On St. Francis' night, when the egg white and the cardoon are on the window sills, a village woman empties a chamber pot on two peasants. This has the odd effect of stirring their passions, and they waylay Michela with rape in mind. The rape is not accomplished, but Michela becomes as mutely mad as her sister; what is more she is really in love...
...prepared in the Specialists' Section of Army G2, a high-powered team of some 50 experts, most of them West Pointers, each a lieutenant colonel or better, each a specialist on some country or region of the world. Heading the project was the late Colonel Joseph Michela. The report, said the Senator, warned emphatically against bringing Russia into the Asiatic war and foretold with remarkable accuracy what would result if she were brought in. Major points...