Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Every Quarter. One of the townspeople-whom no one really remembered-who set forth to make his fortune in the New World was a Genoese foundling named Leopoldo Pietro Saturno, whom a San Marco farmer and his wife adopted to help with the chores. At 20 he left for the U.S. and settled on an irrigated farm beside Reno's Truckee River. Soon he was able to send back to San Marco for his bride-his village sweetheart, Teresa Tissians. By the time he died in 1919, Leopoldo had raised five children and laid the foundations of a fortune...
...there-decided on a gift for San Marco. Everyone in the village would be given 25 shares of Bank of America stock, worth $1,200, with annual dividends running to $80 or more. Said Joseph: "We felt that giving them stock, so they would get a dividend check every quarter, would put joy in everyone's heart." Argued Victor: "Then we thought that because of America's trouble with Russia . . . this might be a pretty good move. Because if Italy went Communist, the whole of Africa would be open to Russia." He added: "If these people hang onto...
...hard and even intolerant." Worst of all, laments sister Béti, Nehru "has allowed himself to be surrounded by those who are known to be opportunists, and the entire government machinery, corrupt and heavy with intrigue, rules the land with no hope of an honest hearing from any quarter...
...nations of Southeast Asia and six "donor" nations-the U.S., Britain Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Since the plan was started in Ceylon nine years ago, primarily as a mutual-aid forum of ten British Commonwealth nations, it has become the accepted regional headquarters for development plans affecting a quarter of the world's population. In that time $6 billion in foreign aid has been pledged to its member countries-nearly $5 billion of it from the U.S. About two-thirds of all the aid has gone to India. The original overall goals (17% more irrigated land, 10% more...
After only four games for Brasenose, Dawkins had developed enough to draw an occasional and modulated "Well done, Peter," from fellow players, was promoted to the Greyhounds, Oxford's second team, and started against Sandhurst, Britain's West Point. Playing right-wing three-quarter back, Dawkins scored the first try for his team by neatly sidestepping five desperate tackles, ended the game with six of the Greyhounds' points in their 29-3 triumph...