Word: bari
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American in Europe in the year 1954 needs but a few weeks or even days to know the sense of Europe's opinion on the subject. A full year here produces evidence that is sickeningly sufficient. From Moscow to London, from Bremen to Bari, the disgust of Europe is as plain and great as the cost to America, although perhaps not matching the comfort to the Soviet Union...
Attacking the British. All Italy was enraged. Violence sputtered in Rome, Milan, Genoa, Naples, Bari, Messina. In Rome, U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce, returning from a call on Premier Pella, found Via Veneto, the broad street in front of the embassy, blocked by demonstrators, so that her car could not get through. Unhesitatingly, she stepped out of the car into the midst of the demonstrators and walked coolly through the crowd to the embassy. Then she offered to talk to any qualified representative of the demonstrators, but the crowd dispersed without anyone taking up the offer...
...Curiously, she could not (and still cannot) carry a tune. This failure almost cost her the chance to study at the Pesaro conservatory, but her fiddling got her by, and in two years she had carried away all available prizes. At 17 she won a violin professorship at the Bari conservatory...
...policy with Italy when she is faithless both as friend and foe." Yet no one took a more contemptuous view of the Italian people than Mussolini himself. One incident or another kept him boiling. "The Duce has been made furiously angry ... by the bad behavior of some farmers from Bari who were being entertained in the Party House in Munich -they even relieved themselves on the stairs. A disgusting incident, likely to lower us to an unbelievable extent in the opinion of the Germans; The Chief . . . let fly at the 'sons of slaves...
Five years ago, the police were arresting the chiefs of the neo-Fascist Movimento Sociale Italiano (M.S.I.); last week, in elections involving 40% of Italy's voters, the Fascists and their monarchist cronies made the largest gains of any coalition, captured Naples (Italy's third city), Bari, Foggia, Salerno, twelve out of 31 provincial councils and 21% of the vote-and emerged as the third party in Italy...