Word: fiumicino
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...Fiumicino, the muddy waters of the Tiber merge with the blue Mediterranean. The town's life seems as sluggish as the river, but beneath the apparent calm there is a deep, turbulent rift which sometimes whirls up like an assault of wind-whipped breakers. That rift is symbolized by the tablet in the city hall commemorating Garibaldi's visit in 1849 (after the Republicans had driven the Pope from Rome), and by the blue & white statue of the Virgin Mary in the church...
Catholics are accused of Fascism. The bitter struggle that rends all Italy recently broke out, in miniature, at Fiumicino. It was known as the "Clock Fight...
...Ravens & the Foxes. Fiumicino's clock had been shattered in the war. Since most townsmen had no watches of their own, and since even a fishing village must move according to the relentless schedule of modern time, repairing the clock was an urgent matter. So everyone agreed when strapping, round-faced Father Bernardoni called together all parties for a raffle. The united effort yielded 70,000 lire. Then dissension began. Father Bernardoni insisted that 6,000 lire be used for parish charity which could not be delayed "because we can't let people die of hunger to have...
...talked of "debouching into the plain" with tanks had failed to consider these obstacles, failed to consider the skill and determination of Field Marshal Albert Kesselring's armies. German tanks were still able to counterattack. They contrived to drive the Eighth from a small bridgehead across the Fiumicino River swollen into a deep, swift torrent by steady rains...
From Lisbon the armada flew non-stop to its glorious homecoming. Practically all of Rome and its hordes of visitors flocked to Fiumicino Airport at the mouth of the muddy Tiber, 15 mi. outside the city, to see the planes arrive. As usual Balbo's triad landed first to a deafening frenzy of cheering, whistle-blowing, bell-clanging, cannon-shooting. The General taxied his plane alongside an improvised receiving stand (a derrick platform) where stood Benito Mussolini, Crown Prince Umberto, the King's aviator-cousin the Duke of Aosta, U. S. Ambassador Breckinridge Long. He stood...