Word: po
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know why I did it. It worked! Along with my South American passport, I guess they weren't prepared psychologically to find TIME in my pocket. They bleated: "Po-anglee-sky," and then began to jabber among themselves that perhaps I had something to do with the Americans. TIME had done the trick...
...Italy's marshy delta of the Po stands the small, bedraggled town of Comacchio. Noted chiefly for poverty, tuberculosis, and eels caught in the nearby lagoons, it had a period of illicit prosperity in the 1920s. When the Valle Trebba was drained by a reclamation project, its muddy bottom proved to be an ancient necropolis. Out of 1,250 tombs came bronze vases and candelabra, gold and silver jewelry and a wealth of beautiful pottery. Part of it was of Etruscan manufacture dating as far back as the 5th century B.C. Much of the rest was Greek of various...
...Died. Tang En-po. 55. Chinese Nationalist general; after surgery; in Tokyo. A onetime boy wonder in China's eight-year war against Japan. General Tang met only defeat at the hands of the Chinese Communists, was sacked after the fall of Shanghai...
General Liu Po-cheng, battle-scarred, one-eyed "liberator" of Tibet, chairman of the Southwest area and commander of the second field army...
...seven years Camillo the priest and Peppone the Communist have been meeting in combat for the souls and minds of the inhabitants of the now famed (if unnamed) village in Italy's Po River Valley...