Word: piazza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government announced that Argentina wanted manual workers (TIME Jan. 27), hundreds of Italians streamed through the plushy corridors of the Grand Hotel, where the immigration commission was set up. After a few days of this, the management brushed them out through the revolving door towards the rainy Piazza, dell' Esedra. Here, under the pampered ilex trees, they waited their turn, munched bread and cheese, lounged against the new Buicks and Chryslers of hotel patrons who found Europe comfortable enough...
Frustration and anger swelled through the Piazza dell' Esedra. Well-dressed Federation representatives explained that they sought only to defend the workers' interests, but the indignant workers shouted back: "We can take care of ourselves. If I want to break my own arm, it's my own right. Keep your protection...
...Piazza's mood was bitter toward everything official in Italy. Told that the Italian Government would straighten out matters "tomorrow," the demonstrators cried: "Why not today? Why must we always wait for a tomorrow...
...Fields had little to do with many things that have happened in the U.S. recently, but almost everything to do with the Duke and the Dauphin and others who peopled Mark Twain's piazza. Not for Fields was the jet-propelled gagging of the radio studios, as fast and inhuman and footless as a new transcontinental speed record. His tempo was adagio...
...bell of the University of Padua (home of St. Anthony, whom the faithful invoke to find lost articles) tolled for nine hours. Five thousand Romans jeered U.S. and British troops in Piazza del Popolo. Mobs paraded in Florence, Modena, Reggio Calabria. At Trieste, which Italy considered lost by a Paris conference decision, 10,000 nationalist firebrands stormed right up to the bow of the berthed cruiser U.S.S. Fargo and screamed: "Down with the Allied traitors! Get out of Italy and let us settle the score! Why don't you go back home to America...