Word: milazzo
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...scores of swarming coastal towns, the citizens of semiautonomous Sicily quietly went to the polls and made their much-ballyhooed choice. To the confusion of just about everybody except the Sicilians, the real victor was neither Communism nor Christian Democracy. It was "Sicilianism" in the orotund person of Silvio Milazzo, president of Sicily's regional government...
...Allied sea-&-air control had failed to blockade the Germans on Sicily. By air, through the fiercely bombed ports of Messina and Milazzo, and probably through obscure landing points on unoccupied beaches, the Germans brought enough troops to replace losses and actually to increase their front-line strength...