Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Livid with rage, his eyes bulging behind their glasses, sweat gleaming on his bald pate. Léon Martinaud-Déplat took the rostrum to answer. "The passion which has been expressed here, the hate on certain faces," he cried, "is plain for all to see." He sneered at the "new left," which. he said, goes from sectarianism to collectivism, with a whiff of Gaullism. Some of his speech could hardly be heard over a chorus of whistles, groans, boos and shouts of "Resign, resign...
...Charge Resented. Italy's new President is a militant Catholic, an engaging conversationalist, and a hobbyist with a passion for model trains, which fill one room of his Rome apartment. Born near Pisa in modest circumstances, he worked his way through college, was an early leader of the Catholic workers' movement, was decorated for gallantry three times in World War I. A founding member of Don Luigi Sturzo's Popular Party, predecessor of the Christian Democrats, Gronchi served briefly in Mussolini's first government in 1922, but rapidly soured on II Duce and was forced...
...Sudden Relaxation. Into that anxious atmosphere one day this week flew the silver, white and blue U.S. transport carrying Radford and Robertson. Their plane touched down at Taipei airport at precisely the scheduled hour of 11 a.m.. thereby satisfying Admiral Radford's passion for on-the-second arrivals. It was a sweet and winy morning, and Chinese and American greeters basked in the sunshine as the big plane landed. A Nationalist military band and a guard of honor stood by to salute the visitors. Heading the welcomers was Nationalist Foreign Minister Yeh, whose mood was not nearly...
...Passion for Politics. The House of Commons that afternoon hummed with anticipation. The benches were packed tight, but on the government front bench no one sat in the place that in times past has been filled by Walpole, Chatham and Pitt, Wellington, Peel, Palmerston, Disraeli, Gladstone and Churchill. Then, in the middle of question time, Britain's 43rd Prime Minister quickly picked his way over the outstretched feet of his sprawling ministers and subsided into Churchill's seat. The House cheered...
Eden stepped up to the dispatch box, flushed but serene. His first thought was for his old master, and he moved the House, as he rarely does, when he spoke of "my Right Honorable friend's courage," his magnanimity, his humor, and his "passion for the political life." "I enjoyed very much the Melbourne reflections," Eden added. "[Mr. Attlee] will not, however, have forgotten that Melbourne, although always talking of leaving office, contrived to stay there for a very long time indeed...