Word: spalla
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, have already given his string section a correspondingly new tone. Beyond that, the concertmaster helps decide promotions, auditions, prospective new players, and acts as a father confessor as well as a liaison between the men and the maestro. Barbirolli says that the Italian appellation for concertmaster, violino di spalla, is more apropos: "His is the shoulder that the conductor leans...
...smokes being toted over the border on everything from helicopters and freight cars to trained St. Bernards. One particularly imaginative operator pumped his contraband across a wide Alpine lake in a crude, homemade submarine. The most reliable technique for safe smuggling is still the local spallone (from the Italian spalla, or shoulder). He is a sure-footed mountain man who trudges through the rocky gorge and Alpine forest of the border country with his fags in a shoulder knapsack, then sells them to a distributor who supplies the big cities...