Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...than 200,000 Roman workers stayed away from their jobs the first morning. Communist demonstrators filled the squares, but the De Gasperi government-rather to the general surprise-had done some stage-setting, too. A battalion of regular army troops with full field equipment took up positions in the Piazza Colonna. Armored cars and fast police jeeps rolled through the streets. When a demonstration was expected at the Ministry of the Interior, firemen played a few jets of cold water through the air. There was no demonstration...
...second day there was a rough moment in the Piazza Colonna when police jeeps roared through a demonstrating crowd, swinging rubber truncheons on Communists and curious alike, and sending pedestrians frantically climbing up pillars. But there were no shots, no dead, no seriously injured. That evening, with the strike falling away under them, the Chamber of Labor bowed to the inevitable, called...
...Borghese pines or along the slopes beside the Appian Way. All the cafes were supposed to be tight shut. Some were, but near by was always another with its steel shutters invitingly half open. A bunch of youthful Communists, chilled by the biting wind, entered a bar in the Piazza Cavour to warm themselves with scab-brewed coffee, then rushed at a smaller bar across the square to force its shutters down...
...little pizzeria Romualdo on the Piazza della Torretta, a little way from Corso Umberto, you have to wind through narrow streets whose buildings seem to teeter perilously close to each other above, almost shutting out the clear winter sky overhead. It is a pleasant meander to a pleasant place. The unpainted wood tables and slightly rickety straight-back chairs promise the compensation of good food. The promise is kept with true Neapolitan pizza-the best water-buffalo cheese melted with just the right amount of garlic into a flour pancake, light as the finest bread...
...black-market money exchanges in Rome's Piazza Colonna, the news came as a profound shock. But to Italian exporters, U.S. importers and world traders everywhere, the news was the best out of Italy in months. Last week, the Italian government abandoned the fictitious value it had set on the lira. It devalued the lira from 350 to the U.S. dollar to what it considered its true worth-the last month's average black-market price of 589 to the dollar...