Word: rocca
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time the U.S. Fifth Army had taken Rocca Massima, a village about twelve miles from the Anzio beachhead, the inhabitants were sharply divided about the future. Lean, greying Igino Cianfone, the village blacksmith, drew together the village leftists, talked 200 into paying Communist Party dues. Meanwhile, his good friend Deputy Postmaster Gustavo Coriddi enlisted village moderates in the Christian Democratic Party...
...time Coriddi persuaded the new Christian Democratic government to put up 26 million lire to build a pipeline to Rocca Massima, whose people since the time of the Caesars had fetched water in copper vessels from three miles away in the vale of "La Femmina Morta" (the Dead Woman...
...When Rocca Massima's Communists saw the construction of the pipeline begin, they wavered in their faith. Soon they began to drift away from meetings in Cianfone's smithy. Last December Cianfone sent a registered letter to Togliatti. Wrote he: "This once flourishing Communist section is dwindling to nothingness. What shall I do?" He got no answer...
...week's end there was double celebration in Rocca Massima: a traditional festival honoring the Madonna, and a party to mark the first gush of water from the new pipeline. Ex-Communist Cianfone brought out his trombone, took his place in the village band...
Mixing jolting lefts with short, vicious rights, Isenberg was in command at all times, flooring Rocca twice, once for the count of five, before the officials halted the bout...