Word: perie
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...invited to join the new Atlantic union, bucked through the week's most savage and stinging easterly squall. For 52 filibustering hours in a turbulent Chamber of Deputies, Palmiro Togliatti's Communists and Pietro Nenni's fellow-traveling Socialists tried to block Premier Alcide de Gas-peri's request for permission to accept the Western invitation. "You buffoon! You infamous one!" screamed Togliatti at De Gasperi. Mass fist fights spotted the debate. Infuriated Communists brandished chairs, hurled desk drawers. One partisan jumped across four benches, tramped on the heads of his comrades as he dived viciously...
...tribunal sentenced Gabriel Peri, political editor of the outlawed Communist newspaper Humanite, to life imprisonment and hard labor...