Word: bolognas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bearing the bitterness of decades one day farther up the road. The soldiers were wiry and brown with the sun. Their rifles were old, their clothes threadbare. Each of them carried two grenades tucked in a belt about his neck and a long blue stocking inflated like an enormous bologna roll. The blue stocking was stuffed with dry rice kernels, the only iron rations the Chinese soldier gets...
...with Fascism began in 1922, when he first defied a request to play Giovinezza at Milan's La Scala Opera House. When the Fascists started to agitate for control of La Scala's policies in 1929, Toscanini resigned as director. Two years later, at a concert in Bologna, the peppery little maestro again refused to conduct Giovinezza, saying publicly that, in his opinion, it was not music at all. After the concert a Fascist mob beat him up, Fascist authorities temporarily confiscated his passport, and the Fascist Party surrounded his Milan home with carabinieri. He was under incessant...
From many sources came reports of Italy in upheaval. Bern and Stockholm told of peace riots in Bologna, Milan and Rome, of clashes between Italians and German soldiery. The Fascist Blackshirt militia, posted on the northern frontier, it was said, had been replaced by Badoglio's police; bad blood brewed between the factions; Italy might yet be plunged into civil...
...Allies move into southern Europe, no part of Germany need be spared. North Italian airdromes, bombed last week, may soon be bases for the bombing of Germany. Already R.A.F. Lancasters are shuttling from Britain to North Africa and back (they bombed Friedrichshafen in southern Germany last month, Bologna and Leghorn in northern Italy last week). From north & south, Allied air power is mounting...
...distinction was as a middling bicycle racer. The turning point came when he happened to sing O Sole Mio in the shower after taking second place in a local race. The man in the next shower told him he had a voice. Pinza was soon on his way to Bologna, where home-town folks chipped in to help him through the Rossini Conservatory. He scarcely had time for a jerkwater debut, when he was mustered into World...