Word: italian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mostly, people talk of going 'skiing' which means escaping over the mountains into Bavaria, or 'honeymooning' which means buying a husband (French, Italian, English or American) in order to get out of the country legally and take a few valuables with them...
...Italian monasteries dawn found monks who had been praying all night that Christianity would prevail on this day. Two hours before the polls opened, a bent, solitary woman, carrying a camp chair for the long wait, crossed Rome's vast, deserted Piazza del Popolo; the garish posters, remnants of one of the world's most momentous election campaigns, proclaimed their slogans like demagogues before an empty hall...
...last-minute excitement Italians rushed to buy tickets in a nationwide pool on how many seats each party would get in the new Assembly. Manhattan's Daily News summed up the situation in a homey headline: "Italy Picks Uncles Today; Will It Be Sam or Joe?" All Sunday and half of Monday, Italians voted. The Reds had hoped that bad weather would keep many people from the polls (a small turnout would favor the Communists). The skies were grey; occasional showers and hailstorms pelted voters. The Christian Democrats, striving to get all the voters to the polls, provided ambulances...
Paine Hall seemed a little more acoustically frigid than usual Wednesday night when Noel Lee '46 began his recital. To his first two pieces, Froberger's Suite in D Major and Frescobaldi's Five Italian Dances, the pianist failed to bring the warmth which has made his playing of Thoroughbass music distinctive and successful. And, on this occasion that warmth was particularly missed, since unfortunately what the performance lacked in feeling was not compensated for by the pieces themselves...
...girl, turned prostitute, picks up a besotted soldier, and slowly comes to recognize him as the boy she began a happy relationship with on the day of liberation, when they were both decent human beings. 4) With Florence under shellfire and contested by partisans, a U.S. nurse and an Italian friend run desperately through the empty, hazardous streets, in search of her former lover, a partisan leader. 5) Three U.S. chaplains-a Roman Catholic, a Protestant and a Jew-visit a deep-country monastery. The monks, surprised by the presence of the Jew, are deeply disturbed because the Catholic chaplain...