Word: duces
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recovering miraculously after he had been abandoned as dead in a cave near Bengasi. Yet his most famous dealings with death occurred in the infamous days between the two wars, when he organized the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, the brilliant Socialist deputy who tried to stand up against the Duce...
...story, which added little to previous reports of the killing (TIME, May 7, 1945). "When a man faces death, he should have the dignity to meet it. Mussolini only trembled." He answered the charge that he and his fellow Partisans had refused confession and last rites to the Duce: "Was I to worry about Mussolini's soul after all I knew of his life...
...aces were Socony's Board Chairman Harold Sheets; Henry DeWard Collier, the shrewd, benign-looking board chairman of Aramco, boss of Standard of California; William Starling Sullivan Rodgers, director of Aramco and board chairman of the Texas Co.;Aramco's globe-trotting Vice President James Terry Duce. Their companies produce 22% of the worlds oil. They reached an agreement which, in effect, put Jersey Standard and Socony in Arabia...
Last week, on the 24th anniversary of Mussolini's march on Rome, Fascist banners fluttered from Roman public buildings, pamphlets glorifying Il Duce showered on the streets of Milan and Naples, nostalgic Sicilian crowds chanted Giovinezza, the Fascist hymn. And in the nationwide municipal elections Guglielmo Giannini's Uomo Qualunque (Common Man) Party registered a spectacular 70% gain over its total vote last June, ran second (behind a Communist-Socialist coalition) in Rome, third in Naples, first in Palermo...
...after five years in exile, he had again made his peace with the Party. He says that "Mussolini, I am sorry to say, liked me very much" for a time, but in later years Malaparte appealed successfully to Count Ciano for protection against the Duce's wrath. When the war came he had no trouble getting accredited to German armies in the Ukraine, Poland and Finland. The publisher's jacket, which tells none of this, describes Malaparte only as a man who dodged the Gestapo and ducked the Fascists...