Word: del
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Italian monasteries dawn found monks who had been praying all night that Christianity would prevail on this day. Two hours before the polls opened, a bent, solitary woman, carrying a camp chair for the long wait, crossed Rome's vast, deserted Piazza del Popolo; the garish posters, remnants of one of the world's most momentous election campaigns, proclaimed their slogans like demagogues before an empty hall...
Before 60,000 Romans in the jammed Piazza del Popolo, Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's No. 1 Communist, laid down the new line. Clad in a grey, double-breasted suit, he mounted a flag-draped truck, lashed out in a high-pitched voice against the "tortuous and Jesuitical policy" of the Western powers. "These powers do not want peace on our Eastern frontier," he charged. "Their declaration . . . amounts to ... an invitation to prepare for war." As for Trieste: "I repeat that after April 18 and the victory of the Democratic Front, we shall have peaceful accord with Yugoslavia within...
...north, where law enforcement is stricter and the S.P.C.A. more vigilant, public pits do not advertise, but they operate at Wheeling, W.Va., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Wilmington, Del., Wilkes-Barre, Pa. and Frederick, Md. (where a cockfight was hijacked and its patrons reportedly robbed of almost $500,000). Across the South, big illegal pits run wide open, from Pass Christian, Miss, to Clovis, N.Mex...
...total of 559-rises gently from the sea through nitrate fields to the border at Socompa. But the Argentines had to push up through the barren, eroded land that the early Spaniards called "the country of desperation and death." Through the red-rock canyon of Quebrada del Toro, a 14,000-foot-high waste of salt desert, and along windswept slopes the construction crews fought their way, cutting 23 tunnels through the Andean rock and throwing bridges across 36 chasms. In summer they battled thirst, in winter the dry snow wind (viento bianco) that blows day & night. Sometimes construction...
...roads to hold motorists down to 40 m.p.h. The government also asked motorists to cut out-of-town jaunts to one a fortnight. Chile's fuel future looked bright. With great fanfare, scientists at the University of Concepcion cracked 150 liters of petroleum from the new Tierra del Fuego fields, pronounced the product excellent...