Word: fronte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communism had fervent working allies: the left wing of Italian Socialism, under Pietro Nenni, had joined the Reds in a formidable Popular Front...
...restless sunlight before the familiar white clapboards of an ordinary house in a peaceful city, you are suddenly chilled beyond belief. You realize, swiftly, that they are not the friendly, ordinary men they pretended to be all along. . . . The bland face of the short, portly man in front-obviously the leader-has become set, purposeful, inscrutable, and his hand is all at once in the pocket of his grey suitcoat. The faces of his henchmen, grouped carelessly around him, convey the same ominous mood. . . . They stand there, waiting, and their purpose is clear. You want desperately to call for help...
...Jersey boy, I will never be able to drive through Allendale again without the thought of that quintet standing like the boys used to stand in front of the roadhouses along the Jersey shore, flush with the success of another load of hooch ashore the previous night, while an obliging cohort snapped their picture...
...with their cars on election day to get the Stassen votes to the polls. Beyond that, Harold Stassen had the support and vote-getting pull of Senator Joe McCarthy and former GOP State Chairman Tom Coleman. When the votes were counted, Harold Stassen had propelled himself into the front rank of GOPresidential candidates...
...blocks away, along the Via Vittorio Veneto, in Rome's most luxurious cafés, aristocrats were discussing, over cream puffs, how to get out of Italy in a hurry. In front of the cafés, crippled children on crutches hobbled in a pathetically grotesque dance, hoping for a few lire from wealthy passersby. It is such contrasts, an expression of the fact that Italy's upper classes still live in luxury while two million unemployed must worry about their daily bread, that help Communism most in Italy...