Word: romes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nations, and the little Greek city-states, fighting for their own hearths and way of life, threw them into the sea. The Carthaginians hired mercenaries to defend their city, and when these hirelings revolted, Carthage was stabbed in the back and left to the mercy of the Romans. And Rome herself fell when the famed Roman legions were replaced by Germanic soldiers...
...night after the election, until the small hours of the morning, Rome's people crowded around the column of Marcus Aurelius in the Piazza Colonna. laughing and slapping each other's backs. "Let's go home!" cried one woman. "The danger is over." While Romans celebrated democracy's victory, swarms of the city's ragged children roamed the streets, tearing down election posters in order to sell them as scrap for a few lire. It was a sharp reminder that the danger was far from over. The victors still had a price...
Sharing the neo-classical sentiment of the period, Wedgwood called his factory "Etruria," and kept a stable of designers in Rome to copy new relics for him as soon as they were dug up. His pet employee, John Flaxman, whom he reserved for designing plaques, intaglios and ornamental urns, sometimes surpassed the classic models...
...Italian monasteries dawn found monks who had been praying all night that Christianity would prevail on this day. Two hours before the polls opened, a bent, solitary woman, carrying a camp chair for the long wait, crossed Rome's vast, deserted Piazza del Popolo; the garish posters, remnants of one of the world's most momentous election campaigns, proclaimed their slogans like demagogues before an empty hall...
...Italian Elections (Sun. beginning 9 a.m., all networks). Periodic reports from Rome throughout...