Word: icardi
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cold-blooded murder by four of his subordinates. The Defense Department's story was backed up point by point by the confessions of three of the accused men and by the recovery of Holohan's poisoned and bullet-riddled body. The fourth man, Lieut. Aldo Icardi, called the ringleader in the plot by the other three, flatly denied his guilt, stuck to his story that the major had died at the hands of German and Fascist troops...
...Chrysler's" team was ill assorted: Holohan, 40, was a big (6 ft. 2 in.) stony-faced bachelor, a lawyer by profession and a peacetime cavalry officer in the Reserves; Icardi, 23, was a slim, daring, bright-eyed young University of Pittsburgh law student; the third American dropped on Mt. Mottarone was Sergeant Carl G. LoDolce, 22, their quiet, plodding radioman, a factory worker before the war. Of the three, only Lieut. Icardi spoke the dialect of the province...
After his brush with Moscatelli, Holohan resolved to order no more arms drops until he was quite sure into whose hands they would fall. Icardi disagreed with this cautious policy, and the issue sharpened a growing conflict between the two men. Holohan, cold and curt, puttered around the villa. Icardi, dashing and adventurous, liked to get around the countryside, turn up at bars and dances. Holohan insisted that the mission follow orders to wear U.S. uniforms, so that if captured they could not legally be executed as spies...
...Lieut. Icardi told Sergeant LoDolce that the trigger-happy Communists were losing patience with the mission. If it were not for the major, the mission could forget about politics, start sending back vital military information and getting weapons that would save thousands of American lives. Icardi spoke of sending Holohan "to Switzerland without his shoes"-a partisan expression meaning to kill...
...idea grew. Icardi and LoDolce talked it over with their two partisan attendants, a slim, wiry workman named Guiseppe Manini, and a slow-witted peasant by the name of Gualtiero Tozzini, known as "Pupo," the baby...