Word: garbagemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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POPE! bannered the big greeting sign. Pope Paul VI beamed back at the 3,000 spanking-clean garbagemen and street sweepers who showed up smelling as fresh as flowers for the Pontiff's visit at the downtown Municipal Sanitation Center. "One should not be ashamed of one's work," the Pope told them solemnly. "What would our city be like if it were not for work like yours that keeps it clean?" The garbagemen shouted back, "Viva il Papa!" Then two days later they answered his rhetoric by going on strike, leaving mountains of refuse all over Rome...