Word: palermo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first government and church authorities beamed on Dolci and his good works, but in time they began to find his excessive zeal embarrassing. Once he went on a hunger strike to force Palermo's government to do something about Trappeto's poor. He won: the government allotted him some $50,000 to begin an irrigation dam in a nearby valley to provide work and water for the local poor. But soon he found himself in trouble with landowners who claimed his dam would drain their own farms...
...field for the I.L.G.W.U., which has many foreign-born members. Over the years, the union has handed out a generous $25 million to various philanthropic projects, many of them in other countries. One project is the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Maritime Trades Institute, a boys' orphanage near Palermo, Sicily, which the I.L.G.W.U. has supported to the tune of $600,000 over the past eight years. Other labor unions (notably the steelworkers and the carpenters) have been lavish, too. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America has contributed $600,000 to Israel, $500,000 to eight Italian Boys Towns...
Probably the best of the linemen is right tackle Wayne Kakela, a 207-pound junior. Sophomore Al Gazzaniga is at the other tackle. The guards are Joe Palermo and Stan Klapper, while at center is Bob Adolizzi, a 200-pound junior. Although relatively small and light, with a 191-pound average, the line is reportedly aggressive, albeit inexperienced...
Somehow, the troupe and its piano kept crossing Carmi's path-at Palermo, again in Naples. Finally, as he learned later, the British left it at Tel Aviv. A beekeeper found it, tried to use it as a hive. A chicken farmer tried to use it as an incubator, a butcher as a meat safe. Finally it was cast out into the street as useless. There Avner Carmi-by now out of the service and once more a piano tuner-again found what he called "my plaster piano pal." When he saw that the insides had been ripped...
...said Mass at an altar improvised of boxes and boards placed in front of a cross made of two charred timbers wired together and planted in a heap of rubble. At San Ignacio, a brown-robed friar carefully set back on its feet an image of San Benito de Palermo, whose day it was. "Not even in Russia did they do this," he said. "They hanged priests, but they did not destroy the churches." In San Miguel lay partly burned church records...