Word: biancarosa
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...social-welfare game, he was largesse to a fault. La Pira lived alone in a bare room above a clinic and gave away most of his salary. He was equally openhanded with the Florentine treasury, which ultimately cost him the mayoralty job. Fanfani and his buxom, dimpled wife Biancarosa (White Rose) have not only been close friends to La Pira, but have also regarded him as their health and spiritual counselor. They even had one of the Saint's old hats around to wave over the heads of their seven children as a "cure" for minor ailments...
...Viet Nam, Fanfani gamely went ahead with his final duties at the U.N., gaveling the session to a close and returning home-just in time to find himself guffaw-deep in a whole new farce with La Pira. This time the unwitting agent of humiliation was his own Biancarosa. Aiming to rescue La Pira's and her husband's image, she had invited the chief editor of the rightist satirical weekly Il Borghese, one of La Pira's harshest critics, to meet the old family friend-certain that his personal charm would carry the day. The editor...
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