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Word: maffiola (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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From St. Anne's, scores of parents went on to the county morgue, a dark building surrounded by police ambulances with red lights flashing. There bodies were sectioned off beneath white sheets by aproximate age and sex. "Maffiola?" a hite-coated attendant called out. "The Maffiola family?" Another attendant died: "Sarno? Anyone here for Sarno?" A deputy coroner told a registrar: "Better leave room for 100 names." The names: Michele Altobell . . . Karen Baroni . . . David Biscan . . . Philip Tampone . . . Christine Vitacco . . . Wayne Wisz. The toll: 91 dead-53 girls, 35 boys, three nuns-and more than 100 injured...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTERS: The Chicago School Fire | 12/15/1958 | See Source »

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