Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Milan a tremendous crowd of about 100,000, mobilized in the Piazza del Duomo, spent seven hours wrecking Qualunquist headquarters and rightist newspaper offices, sweeping rightist newspapers from the stands and burning them in the street. They gave the show away, however, by stoning the offices of the Saragat Socialists (antiCommunist but certainly not fascist) and finally by marching against police headquarters...
...Communists' undiminished self-assurance was perhaps best illustrated by an election-day incident. In the Piazza della Trinita de' Monti, a Communist pollwatcher protested against a reproduction of Leonardo's Last Supper on the walls of the voting room. This picture, he said, was a violation of the rule against electoral propaganda at the polls. The picture was removed...
...crowd broke into uproarious laughter and cries of "Death to De Gasperi-hang him in the Piazza, Loreto!" (where Mussolini was strung up), and "Death to Truman...
Everything was spic & span at No. 2 Piazza dell' Esquilino in Rome last week. Officials of the Argentine Embassy had spent 200 million lire (more than $250,000 at black-market rates) to clean and refurbish the four-story, 40-room building in honor of their house guest, Maria Eva Duarte...
...private balcony) looked out over pink stucco villas toward the island of Ischia. The room and meals cost 1,400 lire ($1.75 black market) a day. A day was like this: breakfast (coffee and hot milk, fresh bread, butter, jelly) on the balcony. Then a walk down to the piazza to buy the Paris Herald (for black-market quotations). Lunch at the hotel was usually risotto with meat, salad, wine, pastry, fruit, coffee. After a two-hour siesta, a walk to the Marina Piccolo to swim off the steep rocks, then back to the piazza to drink iced vermouth...