Word: abbasso
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Next day a procession appeared in the square, led by small boys yelling, hooting and carrying placards bearing the words: "Abbasso la messa-andiamo da Messa (Down with Mass-let's go to Messa)." Elderly ladies on the fringe of the gaping crowd shook their heads sadly, murmured to one another: "All mad; there's no religion any more...
...Rome, where any kind of diversion in the Baltic is a welcome respite from Russian pressure on the Balkans, the game was played for all it was worth. Students marched to cheer the Finnish Minister, yelled "Abbasso il Comunismo!" and signed up for service in Finland "if transportation could be found." In other words, one of Germany's allies was now fighting its other ally, just as one of Finland's friends (Germany) was fighting other friends (Great Britain and France) on the Western Front-a situation not too abnormal for 1939 world diplomacy...
There were roses for José as she stepped off the train in Rome-roses from the Dictator. Excellency Mussolini later kissed Mile Laval's hand, but first he kissed Excellency Laval on both cheeks. Outside the station a mob of Romans, accustomed for years to shout "Abbasso la Francia! Down with France! " when they mentioned that country at all roared "Evviva Mussolini! Evviva la Francia! Evviva Laval!" With 5,000 trim Italian police and militia blocking off the station, the Frenchman's hotel and an intervening strip of Rome, II Duce gave a pointed exhibition...
Several Italian-anti-Fascists (kept back from the Rex at Nice by vigilant French police who feared a bomb plot): "Abbasso Fascismo! Down with Fascism! Abbasso Mussolini...
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