Word: scornicesti
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...turned 60 last week amid trumpetings of praise not heard in the East bloc since Stalin's day. Congratulatory telegrams poured into the Palace of the Republic in Bucharest. Busts and portraits were unveiled. A shrine was being built at his birthplace, in the farm village of Scornicesti. A special exhibition of 60 books on Ceauşescu from 30 countries opened in the capital. Moscow conferred the Lenin Prize, East Germany sent the Order of Karl Marx, and the Rumanian Academy of Political and Economic Sciences chipped in with an honorary doctorate, presumably because Ceauşescu...
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