Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...band tramped down the Salarian Way, along which Romans had once marched to capture the Sabine women and found ancient Rome, the grim thump of drums woke Adolfo Boscaini. Farmer Boscaini kept 200 milk cows, 600 sheep on 220 hectares (about 490 acres). His barns were freshly painted. So was his tractor, ready for autumn ploughing. His cowsheds smelt only of sour-sweet silage...
...outcry from Rome over Andrei Vishinsky's charge that "everybody knows Italians are better at running away than at fighting" (TIME, Sept. 16) brought one graceful Soviet concession. Vishinsky explained that he had really meant to say: "belauded Italian generals such as Graziani and Messe were more used to running than to fighting...
When an M.R.P. deputy rose to speak, the Communists shouted "A Rome! A Rome! (Back to Rome!)" When a Communist deputy rose to speak, the M.R.P. shouted "A Moscou! A Moscou! (Back to Moscow!)" Thus France's Assembly discussed the new draft constitution for the Fourth Republic...
...time to elect a new "Black Pope." Since 1942, when Polish Father Vladimir Ledochowski died, the Society of Jesus had been without a General. By last week, almost all the 200 electors had assembled in Rome for the Society's 29th General Congregation...
...country General were obvious. In an age of bloc diplomacy, he would be more able to work with all nations. He would be accepted more readily in former Axis countries. He might work better with Russia, should the Kremlin ever admit Roman Catholic missionaries. Despite the Russian hostility to Rome, Jesuits are training and planning for the day when they can preach behind the iron curtain...