Word: rovigo
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...fought off rescuers, and standing with famished, snapping dogs and starved, dazed cattle, insisted on hanging on to little patches of still-dry ground. Around them eddied the murky water, bearing straw from the harvest, pieces of furniture, bobbing coffins released from cemeteries. Near Rovigo, a truck loaded with refugees was swept off the highway by a jet of water from a bursting dike; 33 of 40 passengers were drowned...
...daughter of an orchestral cellist, Tebaldi always took a singing career for granted. Five years ago a scout from Milan's La Scala heard her operatic debut in Rovigo, near Venice, signed her at once. Since then, she has been one of La Scala's youngest and most promising stars...
Died. Tommaso Pio Cardinal Boggiani, 79; in Rome. Made Bishop of Adria in 1908, he was instructed to transfer the seat of the diocese from Adria to Rovigo, was stoned as he carried out his orders. Made Papal Nuncio to Mexico in 1912, he was recalled in 1914, in the midst of the revolution. He became a Cardinal...