Word: nemini
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...Known. As one result of the Italian practice of "stable concubinage," the registration papers of at least a million Italian children were marked with an "N.N." (for Nemini Notus, meaning roughly "Not known to anyone") that stamped the children for life. Finally a law was passed in 1955 erasing the demeaning stamp from every bastard's official documents...
...with a typewritten translation of Latin quotations which he read to McCarthy from a black, loose-leaf notebook. Mins, described by McCarthy as a veteran Communist writer who had access to classified radar information in 1943, was asked if he had ever engaged in espionage for Russia. He answered: "Nemini delatorum fides abrogata."* Then he added wryly: "My answer also includes a citation from the Fifth Amendment." McCarthy, who knows a good performer when he sees one, was almost tolerant of Mins...
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