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Word: rosso (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cornacchiacce, you dirty black ravens, you always turn everything into an instrument of propaganda in your favor. You just want all poor to be forced to sign on to the parish list." Salvatore Gallo, a stocky Christian Democrat, rose from his café table in the square: "You volponaccio rosso, you sly red fox, you know very well that the parish helps all the poor. It's only that you want the poor to be forced to come to you Communists." Barbi rushed up: "You lying cornacchia, we think only of the people." Gallo: "You miserable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: A Clock for Fiumicino | 9/1/1947 | See Source »

Germany, Lieut. General Hiroshi Oshima, stopped off for two days of intensive diplomatic activity with the Japanese Ambassador to Russia, Lieut. General Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, and with the German and Italian Ambassadors, Count Friedrich Werner von der Schulenburg and Augusto Rosso. That the Berlin-Rome-Tokyo Axis was bent on taking Russia into camp was plain. Before leaving for his post in Berlin, General Oshima beamed at correspondents and murmured: "Close Soviet-Japanese relations are . . . necessary to facilitate the construction of a new world order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAR EAST: Extension of Heaven | 2/24/1941 | See Source »

...turning the heat on Germany's silent partner Russia. Later Russian Ambassador-designate to Rome Nikolai Gorelchin was given such a roasting press reception that he was recalled before he had even seen King Vittorio Emanuele III; and home to Rome went Italian Ambassador to Moscow Augusto Rosso (whose name means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: No. 1 Facist | 4/8/1940 | See Source »

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