Word: withe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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It need not have turned out that way. After World War II, Britain had the chance, even the open invitation of the weakened nations across the Channel, to join and assume the leadership of a new united Europe. Britain refused, though Winston Churchill's eloquence rang in the halls...
Some influential British civil servants now privately concede that Britain's postwar isolation from the Continent may have been a historic mistake in foreign policy. But dominant forces in both the Conservative and Labor parties seem reluctant to leave the safety of the three familiar circles. The old isolation...
Himself a Catholic and a key figure in the Christian Democratic Party, Gronchi was so annoyed by the Vatican's attitude that he grumbled aloud that "among other matters subject to revision" was the Lateran Treaty of 1929, which regulates relations between church and state in Italy. In the...
Joy Every Quarter. One of the townspeople-whom no one really remembered-who set forth to make his fortune in the New World was a Genoese foundling named Leopoldo Pietro Saturno, whom a San Marco farmer and his wife adopted to help with the chores. At 20 he left for...
One day, remembering their parents' talk of the hard poverty in their old-country village, the two brothers-who had never been there-decided on a gift for San Marco. Everyone in the village would be given 25 shares of Bank of America stock, worth $1,200, with annual...