Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night after the election, until the small hours of the morning, Rome's people crowded around the column of Marcus Aurelius in the Piazza Colonna. laughing and slapping each other's backs. "Let's go home!" cried one woman. "The danger is over." While Romans celebrated democracy's victory, swarms of the city's ragged children roamed the streets, tearing down election posters in order to sell them as scrap for a few lire. It was a sharp reminder that the danger was far from over. The victors still had a price...
...Italian monasteries dawn found monks who had been praying all night that Christianity would prevail on this day. Two hours before the polls opened, a bent, solitary woman, carrying a camp chair for the long wait, crossed Rome's vast, deserted Piazza del Popolo; the garish posters, remnants of one of the world's most momentous election campaigns, proclaimed their slogans like demagogues before an empty hall...
Before 60,000 Romans in the jammed Piazza del Popolo, Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's No. 1 Communist, laid down the new line. Clad in a grey, double-breasted suit, he mounted a flag-draped truck, lashed out in a high-pitched voice against the "tortuous and Jesuitical policy" of the Western powers. "These powers do not want peace on our Eastern frontier," he charged. "Their declaration . . . amounts to ... an invitation to prepare for war." As for Trieste: "I repeat that after April 18 and the victory of the Democratic Front, we shall have peaceful accord with Yugoslavia within...
...Hour. Next day, across the Tiber, the white-clad Pope stood on a balcony beneath the brilliant spring sun. Below him lay the immense Piazza di San Pietro and, in its encircling colonnades, a multitude of more than 350,000 people, who overflowed into the adjoining streets and lined the nearby roofs. Overhead swooped two planes, scattering Christian Democrat leaflets urging the listeners to vote; the tolling of St. Peter's eight-foot bell and the music of the Vatican's band stirred the throng, whose banners read "Christ or Death." With raised hands, the Pope cried: "This...
...help him move some books from one room to another. Loading the obliging gendarme's arms with volumes, Cippico held open the door. When the guard entered, Cippico closed the door and locked it. He slipped into the shadows of Saint Peter's and out into the Piazza di San Pietro, where a waiting automobile whisked him off into the Roman night...