Word: bolognas
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...most striking thing about Italy last week was just that. Not for years had the nation witnessed so far-reaching a surge of strikes. From Milan to Messina, from Bologna to Brindisi, men strutted the streets with banners, sat stubbornly with arms folded in occupied factories or simply stayed home. There was no common denominator to the strikes, no overall pattern of agitation as in the past, but rather a vague feeling among Italian workers that the iron was hot. And strike they...
...cliches and slogans." He said solutions would come from "clear heads knowing all the facts, not by emotional outbursts." He claimed the demonstration had "questioned the ability of chosen leaders to make calm deliberate decisions." Rep. Chet Holifield (D-Calif.) told reporters the marchers were "full of bologna...
...plan, the architect has too often stopped his concern at the property line. Occasionally, as a civic gesture, a building will draw back to leave space for a prestige plaza or a fountain or two. But the impression is still that of a battle of towers, much like Renaissance Bologna's, where each noble family vied to build a taller battlement from which to frown and, on occasion, bombard one another...
...election pamphlet, What We Have Done, the word Communist appears only once in 63 pages. Dozza and his comrades are called the Gruppo Due Torri (the Two Towers Group), a reference to the pair of medieval leaning towers in the city's center which are the symbol of Bologna. Red election posters in the parks and piazzas are similarly bare of the hammer and sickle, and read: VOTA DUE TORRI...
Dozza thrives on paradox. When Bologna's Giacomo Cardinal Lercaro ordered the shaky old church of San Giorgio torn down, it was Dozza who insisted on repairs to preserve it as an historic landmark. In 1956, when a Christian Democratic candidate for mayor tried to undercut Dozza by promising sweeping social-welfare programs, the Red mayor branded his scheme financially irresponsible, and was re-elected by a landslide...