Word: caitiff
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sickle as a party emblem, used pictures of Garibaldi instead. To others, they simply promised houses, land, food; many Italians could not understand why voting for such things was a sin. They had developed the egotism of misery, like the sufferers in the Inferno whom Dante described as "that caitiff choir of the angels, who were not rebellious, nor were faithful to God; but were for themselves...
...must draw attention to the restraint which characterized the Soviet terms to these two countries. . . . Bulgarian armistice terms have not yet been signed. Soviet intervention in this theater was at once startling and effective. The sudden declaration of war by Russia was sufficient to induce Bulgaria to turn her caitiff arms against the German intruders...