Word: ils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome last week, an eye-catching story splashed across the columns of the independent Il Tempo. The left-wing partisans who call themselves "Garibaldini" would wear new khaki uniforms with red neckerchiefs and visored caps at a grand parade on Feb. 18. The partisans also had arms and ammunition. Asked II Tempo: "What does Scelba think of this...
...Scelba wanted was swaggering, uniformed, intimidating bands of Communists and left-wing Socialists marching the streets of Italy. Scelba wanted a law forbidding all private armed organizations. But his cabinet colleagues needed convincing. They feared a row. With a shrewd twinkle in his black eyes, Mario Scelba let scrappy Il Tempo take up the cudgels...
...parades, pinned medals on heroes and put wreaths on graves. An American visitor was told in 1927: "The most wonderful thing about Mussolini is his loyalty to his King." The words were spoken by King Victor Emmanuel III; by that time a lot of Italians would have disagreed. When Il Duce declared war against Ethiopia, il piccolo swiftly calculated: "If we win I shall be King of Abyssinia; if we lose, I shall be King of Italy...
Italians never got a chance to find out whether the kingly breed had improved: Umberto was dubbed Il Re di Maggio (King of the May), reigned but one month after his father. The Italian voters rejected the monarchy by a 5-to-4 margin...
...infection complicated by hardening of the arteries. Four days later, in Alexandria, death, as it must to all kings, came to Victor Emmanuel. Clutching at a handkerchief, dry-eyed Elena sat up all night. In the morning a taxicab arrived with a plain wooden coffin tied on top for il piccolo...