Word: ils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...IL-2 and IL4 are related types which the Russians call Stormoviks and the Germans "Black Death." Slow, cumbersome, low-ceilinged, the Stormovik is heavily armored. Its primary job is tank and fort-busting, which it accomplishes with eight rocket bombs under each wing, two heavy cannon, four machine guns...
...last meetings in Addis Ababa . . . in 1936. 'Those were better times for Italy,' he said. . . . 'Do you remember Termaber Pass,' he asked eagerly, 'and those three days we waited while . . . the Negus [Haile Selassie] fled?' " And as a soldier Badoglio scorned Il Duce's folly in dispersing his army so that only twelve divisions were in Italy when the invasion came...
Calhoun was running our Rome Bureau all through the dark spring of 1940 when France was collapsing and Britain was girding for invasion. He saw clearly that "it is inevitable that Italy will be involved; Il Duce has been building for this war as surely as Hitler"-and he was in the crowd beneath the balcony of the Palazzo Venetia when Mussolini delivered his stab in the back to France and called Italy to arms "to safeguard her honor, interests, and future...
Benito Mussolini's last interview as Duce was published last week. * On June 6, a month and a half before his downfall, Il Duce talked to a correspondent of Lugano's Carriere del Ticino, a minor Swiss, Italian-language newspaper. He was suffering from stomach ulcers, appeared lean and sad. But, above all, he seemed anxious to justify his great mistake...
Giustizia mosse il mio alto Fattore; fecemi la divina Potestate, la somma Sapienza e il primo Amore. . . . Lasciate ogni speranza qui voi ch'en-trate...