Word: straniero
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...respect to John Paul I, the gentle Venetian who had died after a 33-day reign, reinforced the cheers that were beginning to roll across the stunned square. Now it seemed to hit everyone at once. "E il Polacco!"?It's the Pole?said one onlooker. "Un Papa straniero!"?a foreign Pope?shouted others. The realization was beginning to sink in that the supposedly hidebound College of Cardinals had done not merely the unexpected but the nearly unthinkable...
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