Word: alfa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with deadly precision. At 9 a.m., after first attending his daily Mass, the punctual Moro left his apartment in the Trionfale quarter on the north side of Rome and got into the back seat of his blue Fiat 130. His police driver and his bodyguard sat in front. An Alfa Romeo, carrying three plainclothes policemen, followed closely behind. About half a mile from Moro's home, a white Fiat station wagon came to an abrupt halt at a corner stop sign, forcing Moro's driver to brake sharply. The police escort car slammed into the rear of Moro...
...government, Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, 47, likes to rev up engines and tinker with antique cars. Even now he is busy restoring one of the three venerable Lancias that he keeps on his sheep ranch in Victoria. His latest plan was to drive a 1933 Alfa Romeo in a four-lap vintage-car exhibition at Melbourne's Sandown Park-but at the last moment he changed his mind. Instead, togged out in a powder blue racing suit and goggles last week, he climbed beside three-time World Champion Jack Brabham. As the Alfa touched speeds...
...long-haired college student who commutes to school in a flaming red Alfa Romeo, and to the highway patrol it seems I am begging for a speeding ticket. Without my Fuzzbuster, I would be at their mercy. When police radar is no longer accepted as automatic proof of guilt in traffic court, I will gladly put my radar detector away...
...alfa mope, his Bellrope...
...pause in the administration of power," said Moro, adding that he could no longer withstand the opposition he received. Without even bothering to call the confidence vote-defeat was, after all, a certainty-the Premier held a crisp last meeting with his Cabinet, then set off in his blue Alfa Romeo to tender his resignation to President Giovanni Leone at the Quirinale Palace. There Moro requested the showdown that he had maneuvered for weeks to avoid and that he had called "not our choice, but a rigorous and difficult duty." Moro recommended to Leone that he not try to form...