Word: duced
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...lost its. glitter. Eight months had leafed away since his fall from power in Rome. In his Nazi-guarded villa on the shores of North Italy's Lago di Garda, he donned his grey general's uniform, began the day's mock routine of a mock Duce...
...here, no balconies for strutting. Laurel and cypress shut in the rococo house; stained glass windows kept its rooms in decadent twilight. Benito Mussolini shuffled to his desk, shuffled through a morning's paper work. His three physicians-two Italians, one German-had warned him sternly: a dyspeptic Duce could not live like a lion...
...clock.the Duce's stomach ulcers could stand no more. The household gathered for supper. Afterward, the man who once said, "I shall make my life a masterpiece" browsed in a book, chatted quietly. Punctually at 10, he shuffled...
Reported Dead. Virginia Gayda, 58, longtime (1926-43) Mussolini mouthpiece; for the nth time since Il Duce was ousted last July; in an Allied bombing of Rome...
...outfit, the Chevaliers du Glaive, in the '30s became prominent among the Cagoulards ("Hooded Men") a secret terrorist group which organized bombings and assassinations, stored arms depots all over France. Darnand was prosecuted for complicity in the murder of a business associate, for being too close to the Duce's intelligence service, for bad checks issued in his name by his mistress...