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Word: pessina (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...evening last month a popular, mild-mannered priest, Don Umberto Pessina, was walking along a lonely lane to his home in San Martino, suburb of Correggio (where the painter of that name was born). There was a bright orange flash among the yellow fireflies. Don Umberto fell, shot through the neck. He managed to crawl to his doorstep, where the assassin crushed in his skull...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Bells of San Martino | 7/8/1946 | See Source »

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