Word: rome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like a miler awaiting the starter's gun, Western Europe got set for Dwight Eisenhower's arrival-that is, the ministers and their swordbearers got set. As usual in August, the holidays had so depleted the supply of natives in Paris and Rome that tourists were reduced to staring at each other...
...flashy Grassi asked Allen for a loan of $30,000 for a month, saying it would save him the trouble of bank charges. Allen obliged with a check drawn on the American Express bank in Rome. Punctually at month's end, Grassi repaid it. After a second $30,000 loan, which he also repaid promptly, Grassi had Allen completely gulled. Grassi rapidly obtained three successive "loans" of American Express funds totaling an incredible $670,000, and Allen concealed the transactions...
...catch Quadros in Japan, Turkey, Israel, Europe. Quadros missed not a beat on the toast-quaffing circuit, had something at every stop to tickle Brazil's minority groups. Said a Rio politician: "Janio won Brazil's Japanese vote in Tokyo, its Italian vote in Rome, the Jewish vote in Tel Aviv." Everywhere, Janio outlined his platform: the same kind of honest government that brought a boom when he was governor (TIME, March...
...unification, founded (1919) the broad-based Popular Party, largely Catholic but independent of the Vatican, which steered an enlightened middle course between burgeoning extremists of left and right, rose after the Fascist interlude to be Italy's dominant Christian Democratic Party; of a heart attack; in Rome. At the zenith (1923) of his powers Sturzo fell before the violent tactics of Mussolini and fled the country, in exile wrote prophetically (Italy and the Coming World) of postwar disorders, later returned to Italy to lend encouragement to his flourishing Christian Democrats...
...Satyricon of Petronius. A belly laugh at Nero's Rome delivered by the worldliest Roman of them...