Word: rue
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...FASCIST. A bungling Blackshirt corporal (Ugo Tognazzi) and his philosophical prisoner (Georges Wilson) turn their clash of values into a sly satire of Italian history, circa 1944, mixed with equal parts of compassion, reminiscence and rue...
...when a nation in defeat was yet to be Yanked from German rule, this sly bit of Italian history mixes its satire with equal parts of compassion, reminiscence and rue. Tognazzi is the perfect dupe, a tragicomic caricature. Spouting patriotic songs and slogans, he is dispatched to Abruzzi to capture and bring back to Rome a Professor Bonafe (Georges Wilson), described as "the greatest living thinker." He gets the prisoner into the sidecar of his motorcycle, but the partisans take potshots at it, the Allies drop bombs around it, and the Nazis requisition it. He switches to a German amphibious...
Increased U.S. participation was in order, for the Viet Cong last week threatened to cut South Viet Nam in half (see map). Operating in battalion-strength units, the Communists hacked away at two important highways: Route 1, the embattled north-south road that the French called La Rue sans Joie (Street Without Joy), and Route 19, which links Pleiku in the central plateau with the seaport staging base of Quinhon. Controlling all of Route 19 from Pleiku to within 20 miles of Quinhon, the Viet Cong pinned down a company of South Vietnamese Rangers and U.S. Special Forces advisers...
...Hole. The biggest draw of all is the gambling. In 1949, the government opened the door to gamblers, and there are many Puerto Ricans who rue the day. But not the hotelmen. The handle at the island's 13 hotel casinos is conservatively estimated at $50 million a year-which pays the rent, tides the hotels over the lean summer months and brings the tourists back for more. Of the Caribe Hilton's $750,000 profit one year, fully $500,000 came from gambling. Another casino grossed $650,000 in winnings in December alone...
...commission is partly financed by the Ford Foundation, but largely out of the pockets of its own members, such as the chief justices of countries as diverse as Nigeria and Norway. At commission headquarters at 2 Rue du Cheval-Blanc in suburban Geneva, a staff of 35 hustles to publish not only the Bulletin but also the Journal and the Newsletter, with a combined circulation of 400,000 copies in four languages (English, French, German, Spanish). Paid only bare expenses, teams of jurists are dispatched in every direction; international congresses are organized in such places as Athens, New Delhi...