Word: palermo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Naples, nostalgic Sicilian crowds chanted Giovinezza, the Fascist hymn. And in the nationwide municipal elections Guglielmo Giannini's Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party registered a spectacular 70% gain over its total vote last June, ran second (behind a Communist-Socialist coalition) in Rome, third in Naples, first in Palermo...
Promptly the King's henchmen gathered at the Quirinal, where Umberto had made his last farewells and was packing. The King apparently saw a chance, decided not to go-and royalist leaders whipped up riots in Rome, Naples, Palermo. Alarmed, De Gasperi hastened up the hill and told Umberto to leave at once. In a rage, the scion of Savoy scrapped a conciliatory message to the new republic, substituting a truculent protest. Then he donned a grey suit and porkpie hat, stole away to Ciampino airport and flew to join his family in Portugal. In a few days...
...results, announced several days after the vote, also were accepted calmly (with the exception of minor monarchist outbreaks at Naples, Rome and Palermo). The Christian Democrats had won 207 seats in the 559-deputy assembly. They and lesser parties, their probable allies, could expect to control 275 seats. The Socialists got 116, the Communists...
Raise You Five. In Palermo, Sicily, Bandit Giuliano, learning that there was $3,820 on his head, retaliated, put $9,434 on Interior Minister Romita...
...cardinal usually has a half-dozen or more) takes up to 30 yards of material, and Italy's weavers are still short of supplies, Gammarelli feared there would not be enough for all the cardinals "unless they ruthlessly cut down their wardrobe." First to place his order was Palermo's Archbishop Ernesto Ruffini, who knocked at the tailor's door the very morning he heard the happy news. Said Gammarelli last week: "I would want to satisfy them all but they will have to be patient and make...