Word: si
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When she revealed his desire to emulate Horace and rear a lasting monument by putting on his door "If you don't swing, don't ring" in deathless Latin chased in metal, I explained in vain the impossibility of translating slang. So I came up with Si non oscillas noli tintinnare and forgot about...
...line is Playboy's Hugh M. Hefner, 37, who was asleep in his humble 40-room pad on Chicago's North Side one afternoon earlier this month when four men from the vice squad came calling. A brass plaque on the front door carries the Latin legend "Si non oscillas noli tintinnare"-"If you don't swing, don't ring"-but the cops rang anyway and swung Hefner off to be booked on charges of publishing and selling an obscene magazine...
...brave' are incomparable to the purposeful demonstrations of far-off lands" simply ignores the facts. What, we ask, is more purposeful: a group of Latin Americans "continually agitating in front of Batista's sumptuous palace" or 4,000 clean-cut Harvard students shouting as one man: "Latin si, Pusey no"? And which is more effective; students vaguely "proclaiming their political ideals" in scattered cities or 1600 Harvard men concentrated on Cambridge making a specific demand: Pogo for President...
Just then the conversation was drowned out by a group of young Cubans, bound for school in Russia, who broke into a revolutionary song with a cha cha beat ending up ''Cuba, si! Yanqui, no!" Russian passengers joined in the chorus...
...Sept. 8, 1943, the day Badoglio surrendered to Eisenhower, the lid of a manhole lifted hesitantly in a Neapolitan alley and a draft dodger squinted at the unaccustomed sunlight. "La 'uerr' ê finood'!" the mob above him bellowed in delirium. The war was over for Sicily, si. But for Naples it was far from over. On Sept. 12, the Panzers rumbled into town as the Italian garrison stumbled off in all directions. Then flying squads of German soldiers burst into the Vomero, the city's principal slum, and gun-butted the male population into labor battalions...