Word: piazzas
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...mounted carabinieri and their red-plumed helmets died into shocked silence when the beloved Bersaglieri (sharpshooters) rode by in halftracks instead of trotting jauntily on foot to the tune of blaring bugles. An old woman watching the parade nodded her head toward Mussolini's old balcony on the Piazza Venezia. "He did things much better," she said...
Last week a group of seven merry Italian vacationists dropped in at Juliet's castle and persuaded Innkeeper Enrico Piazza to join them in an evening of cards and dining well washed with the white Soave wine of Verona. The innkeeper accepted with a will, romped and drank with the visitors until long after closing time. At last his guests drove off in two cars and a small truck, and Piazza set about locking up the tavern. When he got to Juliet's room, a cold chill gripped his heart. Gone were the bedstead, the wardrobe...
Warsaw watched 600,000 march. Prague staged its celebration in historic Wenceslaus Square, where citizens had wept when the Nazis swept in. Paris had a divided holiday-a traditional left-wing parade and a rival Gaullist music festival. Rome listened to speeches in the jampacked Piazza del Popolo. Peking's 200,000 celebrants chanted "Long live Sino-Soviet alliance...
Caesar and Coca are supported by such guest stars as Gertrude Lawrence, Rex Harrison or Jose Ferrer, and by a chorus and well-trained ballet. To "add a sprinkling of cultural items," Liebman pairs off the Metropolitan Opera's Baritone Robert Merrill and Soprano Marguerite Piazza, in neatly scissored scenes from light and grand opera...
...activists patrolled the gates of the huge Breda steel plant and other factories, barred workers from entering. Others stopped the city's trams. One group burst into the office of Mayor Antonio Greppi (a right-wing Socialist), demanded that he address a mass meeting in the Piazza del Duomo, as he had done on a similar occasion in 1947. At that moment the phone rang. It was the prefect of Milan, sternly reminding the mayor of the ban on public assemblies. When Greppi told the Red delegation, "No meeting is authorized," he was vilified as a "coward and traitor...