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Word: bravetta (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1932-1932
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...tribunal promptly sentenced Bo-vone and Sbardellotto to death, Signorina Blaha and five others to 30 years' imprisonment, the remaining two men to ten years. Bovone signed a plea for clemency, Sbardellotto scornfully waved the paper aside. Next morning at daybreak in the courtyard of Fort Bravetta they were chained to chairs. While 500 militiamen shouted, "A Noi!" (To us!), a firing squad smashed the plotters' backs with hard Fascist bullets. "For Benito Mussolini!" cried the commander. "Forward March...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bullets in the Back | 6/27/1932 | See Source »

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