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Try local specialties such as feroce, a spicy avocado-and-fish filling (that can be ferocious with too much chili, hence the name), and puoile duddon, a chicken stew flavoured with coconut and treacle.
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Sesso, intrigo e mistero sono i principali ingredienti di questa audace e insuperabile storia, che ci sfiora come la carezza sensuale di un amante e ci cattura come gli artigli di una lupa feroce.
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“Le patriotisme feroce de Rostopchine” and the barbarity of the French were not to blame in the matter.
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The French attributed the Fire of Moscow au patriotisme feroce de Rostopchine, * the Russians to the barbarity of the French.
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David Levine's drawing — Berlusconi giving a Nazi salute [NYR, June 6, p. 44] — is misleading because Mussolini had the consent of the people for the "threatening face" [la faccia feroce], the "eight million bayonets," the wars of conquest, and the imprisonment of opponents, while Berlusconi uses television with a smile, family entertainment, "la vie en rose," the advertising of consumer goods for the housewife.
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This formula was, however, more than simply extreme etatism; at the same time Mussolini and other leading Fascists pro - claimed their feroce volontà totalitaria (“violent totali - tarian will”) and talked about the “totalitarian program of our Revolution.”
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Vous l'avez juge timide, parce que son imagination, que l'on croyait ardente, qui n'etait que feroce, parassait exagerer souvent les maux de son pays.
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"_Mais non, pas du tout petit, et pas du tout charmant; un bete feroce_ --"
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And he would explain with railing verve what Don Vincente Ribiera stood for -- a mournful little man oppressed by his own good intentions, the significance of battles won, who Montero was (_un grotesque vaniteux et feroce_), and the manner of the new loan connected with railway development, and the colonization of vast tracts of land in one great financial scheme.
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-- The Devil had a big calabash in his hand full of _feroce_, -- that is to say, boiled salt codfish and manioc flour, with ever so many pimentos (_épi en pile piment_), -- just what negroes like Yé are most fond of.
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