Word: lorenzini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some observers thought the movement, despite its peculiarly widespread character, was spontaneous. Giuseppe Lorenzini, a partisan brigade leader, declared that it had been fomented and financed by the Communist Party. Chief point of interest: were the Communists trying to organize a Tito-like partisan movement to harass the Allied rear in case of a Yugoslav move against Trieste...
...African war. In the face of constant bombings, under steady artillery fire, nearly surrounded, some 35,000 Italians showed that they could be as stubborn as the rocky buttes they defended. They resisted British attacks, and countered with their own-losing in one a brave general named Orlando Lorenzini. General Lorenzini, who led a brigade in the Italian assault on Berbera last August, died on the day the British won it back last week...
...Rome, a nephew of the late Carlo Lorenzini, who wrote Pinocchio, asked the Ministry for Popular Culture to sue Walt Disney for libel. Charge: Disney's film so distorted the character of Pinocchio that "he easily could be mistaken for American...