Word: loreto
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crowd broke into uproarious laughter and cries of "Death to De Gasperi-hang him in the Piazza, Loreto!" (where Mussolini was strung up), and "Death to Truman...
...bodies of the 18 were loaded into a moving van and trucked south to Milan. There, at 3 a.m. Friday, they were dumped in the old Piazza Loreto, now renamed Piazza Quindici Martiri, in honor of 15 antiFascists recently executed there...
...Died. Loreto Santarelli, 57, soft-tongued, Italian-born maître d'hôtel of London's big, swank Savoy since 1926, inventor of Britain's war-famed Woolton Pie (crusted vegetable stew with bacon rinds), confident to gourmets, statesmen, royalty; of a heart attack; in London. Released after brief internment at the beginning of the war, British Subject Santarelli guided his guests politely among steel girders to the Savoy's emergency bomb-cellar dining rooms during the blitz...