Word: overing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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All over the country, workers and clerks spilled into the streets and squares, wearing the Torinos' badge encircled in black crepe. Pope Pius XII sent a message of condolence to the players' families. Mourned President Luigi Einaudi: "Horrifying disaster . . . Harsh blow for the entire nation . , ."
One Never Knows. For years, department-store credit managers, income-tax investigators and the parents of the girl engaged to the young man upstairs have come regularly to La Pipelette for information about her tenants. They are answered in direct ratio to the generosity of the tips Madame has received...
The average Russian is not likely to be jubilant over the news. Champagne has long been used to wash down caviar at official Soviet blowouts. But at 80 rubles a bottle (the equivalent of three days' average pay), champagne for Ivan is still as unattainable as the stars.
Bridge was almost eclipsed and so was gin rummy. A double-deck card game called Canasta had spread over the hemisphere. In Buenos Aires, citadel of the game, Canasta had progressed from a diversion to a rage.
Alberto Dodero laid a course toward the big time when as a young man he moved from Montevideo to Buenos Aires and added to the family business a freighter bought on credit. He quickly gathered headway. At the end of World War I, with a credit of $10 million, he...