Word: cesta
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...article "The Generous Lender," reference is made to a certain controversial figure whose unique banking methods are under investigation by the Italian Parliament. Your untrue statement says: "Not long after [Giambattista] Giuffre's black custom-built Fiat sedan drew up at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Cesta di Copparo, the Passionists had a new monastery, 20 new acres of farm land and an $850,000 Sanctuary to the Blessed Virgin of Peace." Signor Giuffre never visited outhouse at Cesta di Copparo, nor has he ever donated so much as one Italian lira to the purchase...
...repaid the loans and interest promptly. Catholic charities invested large sums with him. And all the while, Giuffrè gave unstintingly to the church and its works. Not long after Giuffrè's black custom-built Fiat sedan drew up at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Cesta di Copparo, the Passionists had a new monastery, 20 new acres of farm land and an $850,000 Sanctuary to the Blessed Virgin of Peace...
Spain and Mexico were matched at Cesta Punto (considered the purest pelota form) in the final. Mexico's stocky Fernando Pareyon and Manuel Barrera, a ferocious hitter, were favored by the aficionados over the wiry Spanish brother team, Manolo and Joaquin Balet, sons of a wealthy Catalonian textile manufacturer and oldtime pelota champion. While the Mexican team led a carefree tourist life before the match, Papa Balet whisked his sons off to a secluded retreat...
Originally called pelota (ball) and played with the bare hand against church walls in the Basque country three centuries ago, the game gradually evolved until three concrete walls were used instead of one, and a cesta (wicker basket shaped like a pelican's lower bill) was strapped onto the wrist to protect the hand from the sting of the fast-moving little pelota (hard as a golf ball and a little smaller than a baseball). Cubans imported the sport in 1900, called it jai alai for no other reason than that it was played at an arena in Havana...
...hold the court. In a doubles match the players move so fast that without their bright shirts in solid contrasting colors you could not tell the teams apart. Two rhythms work in jai alai like the separate yet dependent movements of a fugue. One is the sweep of the cesta. catching the ball on the back swing, throwing it the same second with a stab or a sweep, depending upon whether the player wants to make a long shot or a cut. The other rhythm is the movement of the spectators' faces left and right-first toward the wall...