Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosperous, well-populated land 1,000 years before Christ. Carthage conquered the island in 450 B.C. and reduced its people to a relatively barbaric state. Soon much of Sardinia's ancient sculpture lay buried under layers of silt and rubbish, not to be uncovered again until Italian archeologists began digging it up a century...
...Baldy Mountain. Was he scared? Not a bit, scoffed Toscanini. He had been a mountain climber in his youth-which was a good 60 years ago. Up & down the lift, he gaily applauded members of his orchestra as they passed, crying "Bellissimo," with the enthusiasm of a small Italian...
...past six years, Italian Communism's most trusty and telling weapon has been the CGIL (Confederazione Generate Italiana del Lavoro). From 1944 to 1948 it operated almost as a monopolistic, aggressive state within the state, claiming 6,500,000 members and another 5,000,000 affiliates, using the general strike as a political bludgeon against the government. CGIL's boss was Communist Bigwig Giuseppe di Vittorio, who ran the show with a strong arm and a jealous eye for any non-Communist challenge to his power...
Last week, Comrade di Vittorio and his CGIL faced a rising rival, the CISL-Confederazione Italiana Sindacate Lavoratori (Italian Confederation of Workers' Trade Unions). CISL (pronounced chisel) started growing two years ago as a Christian Democrat splinter of the Communist union, has grown steadily and courageously, chiseled deeply into Red trade union strength. Last month the Communists called a waterfront strike against U.S. arms shipments. CISL unionists, under police guard, broke it by unloading American weapons at Naples...
...presumably because it was a fraud; and in 1390 Pope Clement VII issued a special bull ordering that it should be treated only as "a painted representation of the original, authentic Holy Shroud, whose whereabouts are unknown." Since 1452 the cloth has been the property of the Italian House of Savoy. On special occasions it was exhibited to the faithful, but in the 19th Century, at least, it seems to have appeared not as a painting but as a soiled and damaged piece of white linen...