Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hole. On a bed beside him was the barefoot body of his wife, her face cruelly beaten and a deep knife wound in her back. The murderer had locked the door behind him with a padlock. Working on the theory that the murders might have been a crime of passion, police began looking for the ex-convict who had rented the room...
...long fighting years of the Battle of Washington had given the Air Force a sensitive defense mechanism and an annoying passion for flamboyant publicity to drive its message home to the U.S. public, a proneness to leak its troubles to partisans in the press and in Congress when the infighting got tough. As Vanden-berg's Vice Chief of Staff, Nate Twining knew the infighting techniques as well as anybody. But when President Eisenhower promoted Twining to Chief of Staff last June, it was Twining's judgment that the long revolution was over, that the time had come...
Private Life: Outdoors, a passion for hunting, fishing, hiking; indoors, for woodworking (which he now rarely has time for), and tying fancy flies for next spring's fishing. Smokes six to eight cigars a day, drinks an occasional Scotch & soda, likes western movies to get his mind off work, and quietly frets at the social chores that go with...
What Athenagoras brought to Istanbul from the U.S. was a passion for intergroup harmony. He saw that the antique antagonism between Turk and Greek, Moslem and Christian was a menace to the City of God as well as the City of Man, and he dedicated himself to ending...
...Greek Passion, by Nikos Kazantzakis. The temptation, betrayal and death of a Passion-play Christus; an impressive modern parable by the author of Zorba the Greek (TIME...