Word: borgo
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Knife-nosed Ludovico Monti was a dedicated man. The most energetic news vendor in Borgo San Lorenzo, near Florence, he had been offered the local agency for many daily papers. But, with the support of his pretty wife Armida, Monti was determined to sell only Unita, the Communist paper which commanded all his faith and ambition...
...Sunday mornings Monti invariably aroused Borgo's citizens with his cries: "Buy Unita! Read Unita! Here is Unita!" Peasants for miles around knew the peal of Monti's bicycle bell as he flashed by, a huge stack of papers thrown across the handlebars, a small red flag flying on his front mudguard. Those who looked up late saws the word "Unita" in huge letters on the back of Monti's sweater as he pedaled briskly about his business...
...news vendor's tireless efforts brought their reward. For four years running, Communist provincial headquarters had acclaimed him "Tuscany's Best Unita Salesman," and he had been named inspector over all other Unita salesmen in the Borgo San Lorenzo area. Monti's fine record even led party headquarters to take a tolerant attitude when early this year he failed for the first time to turn in promptly the proceeds of his Unita sales...
...election followed a centuries-old formula. For four days electors were confined to the Society's headquarters at the Borgo Santo Spirito. When election day came, they attended a 5:30 Mass of the Holy Ghost, then, wearing their plain black robes, filed into the Hall of Elections. After an exhortation on the qualities most needed in the new General, electors knelt for the prescribed hour of prayer and meditation. The hour past, each elector read the oath: "I swear that my vote has been guided only by the interest of the Church and the Society of Jesus," dropped...
Lieut. Francis Xavier Buckley, a carrot-thatched engineer from Philadelphia, was tooling his jeep northward from Terracina along the coastal road, accompanied by a private. When they came to a wrecked bridge near Borgo Grappa, they got out and started to walk, escorted by a flock of politely curious Italians on bicycles. At 7:31 Buckley met a force moving south from the Anzio beachhead - Captain Benjamin Harrison Souza of Honolulu and his platoon of engineers. The captain and lieutenant stared at each other...