Word: lucetti
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...Gino Lucetti, a pale young man dressed in a neat brown suit, awaited the Premier's car at the Porta Pia. His slightly bulging coat pockets held four hand grenades which he had saved from the days when he fought for Italy in the World War. One trouser pocket was full of dumdum bullets. The other held a dumdum-loaded revolver and 60 lire ($22) in small bills...
...Signor Mussolini's limousine swept through the city gate, Signor Lucetti hurled a hand grenade. Well aimed, it struck the glass behind which sat Il Duce. The glass splintered, tinkled, held just sufficiently so that the bomb glanced to the roadway, exploded, hurtled stones and splinters which wounded eight bystanders and deeply scarred the back of the Premier's limousine, by then 30 feet away...
Would-be-Assassin Lucetti, dragged by the police from a mob which was trying to lynch him, said quietly: "I am an anarchist. I came from Paris to kill Mussolini. I was born in Italy. I have no accomplices...