Word: neapolitan
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...divers were busy beneath the waters of Naples harbor looking for mines. Just over their heads navy patrol boats bumbled to & fro; above them, planes of the Italian air force watchfully circled the sky. On the shore, soldiers in tanks and jeeps patrolled the approaches to the waterfront, and Neapolitan police guarded a dock entirely surrounded by barbed wire...
...Neapolitan custom that, on the first Monday after burial, relatives and close friends of the deceased return to the grave and deck it with flowers. On that day, Cicatiellos bearing red flowers and Coronas bearing white flowers appeared at the cemetery. This time, antagonism boiled over and there was a sharp pitched battle...
...whose language is strictly from New Jersey, tries to reassure, and flirt with, a half-grown Sicilian girl who knows no English. A German sniper kills them both. 2) A Neapolitan street boy steals the shoes off a drunken Negro soldier. When the Negro spots him later, and sees a little of the neolithic life of Naples' poorest people, he loses interest in his shoes, and learns that U.S. Negroes are not the only unlucky people on earth. 3) A Roman girl, turned prostitute, picks up a besotted soldier, and slowly comes to recognize...
...full 24 hours gold-spectacled merchants, sheep-faced bumpkins from the farmyards, wispy old ladies and hot-eyed, big-bosomed Neapolitan beauties pushed and stampeded through the door of Naples' cathedral, where the Madonna di Pompeii had been raised on an altar surrounded by the reddest roses...
...second grant went to a boarded, esthetic-appearing Neapolitan, George Bendelari, "or, as he was known in the College, Georgie Anacleto Corrado Bendclari '74." Mr. Bendclari wound up writing for the New York Sun, which has not to anyone's knowledge ever been "reputed to be radical...