Word: benito
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Europe poured out its blood into the muck of Flanders and France-2,706.154 casualties for the British; 4,974,000 for the French; 4,846,340 for the Germans-but carved new conquests out of the vanquished Ottoman Empire. The last of the Empire builders, Italy's Benito Mussolini, grasped vast Libya only to lose it, his nation and his own life, in World...
...Roman court took pity on two children of Benito Mussolini, ruled that their health is too delicate for them to earn a living and awarded them pensions for life. Tubercular Jazz Pianist Romano Mussolini, 28 (TIME, Jan. 30), will get $112 a month; his sister Anna Maria, 27, partially crippled from a polio attack in childhood. $192 a month. The pair will not burden Italy's grandly evasive taxpayers; the support funds will come from their father's confiscated estate...
...Benito Mussolini used to spend odd hours sawing on a fiddle and lamenting the dictator's fate that kept him from becoming "a great concert violinist." This week one of the hottest jazz pianists in a land of few jazz piano players, a musician billed as Romano Full, will make his public debut with a quintet at San Remo's International Jazz Festival. His full name: Romano Mussolini, 28, Il Duce's youngest son. Unlike his father, who could read music, Romano is musically illiterate but plays by ear better than Il Duce did by note. Romano...
...priest 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...
...dead and Churchill too busy to attend when the U.N. put on its peacetime robes ten years ago. It was a time of victory; a war-weary world stirred with hope of something better. As the U.N.'s founding fathers were gathering in San Francisco, the bodies of Benito Mussolini and Clara Petacci were lowered into potter's field graves in Milan. Midway through the conference came the news that Hitler was dead. In the Utah desert, while the Pacific war raged on past Okinawa, a B-29 named Enola Gay was secretly being tested to carry...