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Word: sassari (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Proud Eye. Italy's urbane, frail Premier Antonio Segni comes from Sardinia. As the father of Italy's postwar land reform (he himself surrendered 200 acres of rich olive groves outside Sassari), Premier Segni keeps a proud eye on the Sardinian transformation, and almost every Sunday without fail flies the 125 miles from Rome to his Sassari villa. The new Sardinia may do him political good, too, helping to hold his Christian Democratic pluralities on the island in Italy's nationwide municipal elections a fortnight hence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Hope in Sardinia | 5/21/1956 | See Source »

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