Word: giacomo
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Contributor Giacomo Perico would have people develop a more acute sense of "highway sin." Perhaps the biggest highway sinner of all is the driver who takes chances and trusts to luck. If he has an accident, the church cannot absolve him until he has made good all damages, aided any victims and avoided perjury in court. If he gets himself killed, he has in a sense committed the sin of suicide. Father Perico would slow down drivers with a campaign of highway slogans. Samples: HURRY is ALMOST ALWAYS A SIGN OF PRIDE AND EGOISM, and HIGHWAY IMPATIENCE IS A SIGN...
After hearing Mrs. Gall out, Judge Resat Soysal ordered one of the Americans, Sergeant Giacomo Recevuto of Brooklyn, released on bail. Then ignoring a prosecution offer to agree to the bailing of two more of the sergeants, the judge set the next session of the trial some 25 days off-the longest interval...
...setting of The Devil's Advocate is the mountain town of Gemello Minore in Calabria, in parched and poverty-scarred Southern Italy. The cult-prone townsfolk have taken to worshiping at the tomb of Giacomo Nerone, a mysterious World War II deserter who lived less than a year in the town before being shot by Communist partisans. The local bishop asks Rome to send a "Promoter of the Faith" or "Devil's Advocate" to sift the ambiguous signs of Nerone's saintliness...
...Giacomo Manzu, 50, is the great modern throwback to the Renaissance. Trained as an ornamental plasterer and raised among the Renaissance sculptures of his native Italy, Manzu loves the old. His famed Cardinals are still as shellfish in their enclosing robes and miters, but Manzu himself denies that they are conservative-he calls them "my abstractions...
...Turkish Custom. Early the following morning, while McCuistion was still being held incommunicado, Turkish police picked up U.S. Air Force Sergeant Giacomo Recevuto, of Brooklyn. And that afternoon Izmir Police Chief Nevzat Emrealp informed NATO authorities that he wanted to have "a little talk" about currency black-marketing with two other U.S. sergeants, James D. King of Ruth, Miss, and Joseph Proietti of Mt. Kisco, N.Y. Emrealp did not mention that his men had already extracted from the Turkish manager of the NATO noncoms' club in Izmir a confession implicating King-a confession subsequently repudiated by the club manager...