Word: rome
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gave force to the divinely inspired canons for human conduct of Moses; it gave force to the rule of the Hindu Manu, the Babylonian Hammurabi, the Roman Numa and the Greek Lycurgus; it gave force to the law as a human science in the Digest of Rome's Emperor Justinian; it gave force to the common law of England, based on principle, shaped by experience, controlled by reason...
...cent on Khrushchev," continued Seniga. "He thought he was worth very little." Togliatti's newspaper L'Unita called the turn wrong on Zhukov, thinking the marshal was about to be promoted instead of sacked. Each morning for three years, Togliatti reportedly walked into Communist Party headquarters in Rome with the same question: "What news from the peasant?" Whenever the reply was "Nothing new." Togliatti would sigh, "Then today we can work in peace." After Hungary brought a flood of desertions from the Italian Red Party, Togliatti told an intimate: "See where Khrushchev has brought...
...Cuirara tribe became prosperous, passport-carrying salesmen, who drive in style up and down Europe in search of fresh markets for their cars. Only two months ago, Queen Mimi and an entourage of 50 set out in six Buicks, a Cadillac and seven towed caravans, on a trip to Rome. Queen Mimi never made it. At Lendinara, ill with diabetes and a succession of heart attacks, she was forced to go to the hospital...
...Rome, Cardinal Stritch was rushed to Sanatrix Clinic. Telegrams poured in from all over the world. To consult with the Italian doctors, two U.S. physicians flew to Rome without waiting to get their passports in order. At the Cardinal's bedside, they concurred in the diagnosis: a block-probably a clot-in a major artery of his right arm. This week the doctors agreed on a drastic recourse: amputation of the Cardinal...
...four. As a Princeton University undergraduate, he studied composition with Roger Sessions, won the New York Music Critics' Circle Award in 1944 for his String Quartet in B Flat. He followed Sessions in 1946 to Berkeley, where he got his M.A. With three years out for work in Rome on a Prix de Rome and later a Guggenheim fellowship, he has taught at the University of California ever since...