Word: duces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with Mussolini, but their fights were due more to delinquency than to politics. When he went to Brussels to claim his bride, an exiled anti-Fascist took a badly aimed shot at him. Ever after he raised his hand in the Fascist salute and, like his father, gave the Duce no trouble. Lately, ordinary Italians have dubbed him lo stupido nazionale and il buffone (clown...
...lost its. glitter. Eight months had leafed away since his fall from power in Rome. In his Nazi-guarded villa on the shores of North Italy's Lago di Garda, he donned his grey general's uniform, began the day's mock routine of a mock Duce...
...here, no balconies for strutting. Laurel and cypress shut in the rococo house; stained glass windows kept its rooms in decadent twilight. Benito Mussolini shuffled to his desk, shuffled through a morning's paper work. His three physicians-two Italians, one German-had warned him sternly: a dyspeptic Duce could not live like a lion...
...clock.the Duce's stomach ulcers could stand no more. The household gathered for supper. Afterward, the man who once said, "I shall make my life a masterpiece" browsed in a book, chatted quietly. Punctually at 10, he shuffled...
...join them. They will carry on the agricultural life for which the Cistercians (of which the Trappists are a part) have been famous since the Order was founded in 11th Century France. The Georgia brothers will raise Holstein cattle, pigs, poultry, grains, vegetables. They also hope to pro duce the Kentucky abbey's famed Port du Salut cheese...