Word: sant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...early hours one January morning, the clang of church bells broke the stillness over the vineyards and olive groves of Sant'Angelo in Villa, about 50 miles southeast of Rome. At the sound of the tocsin, villagers tumbled out of bed and, dressing as they ran, swarmed to the church, shouting threats. The alarm had been sounded by two early risers who had spotted the enemy on their way to work. The enemy: Parish Priest Andrea Tarquini, who, flanked by three carabinieri, had tried to slip secretly into the church to sign a document that the whole village considered...
...document: a separation decree issued by the local bishop taking the nearby village of Giglio out of the Sant'Angelo parish. To the 500-odd villagers, this parish chopping seemed intolerable. Sant'Angelo parish had become too big, insisted the bishop. Retorted Emilio Cianfarano, Sant'Angelo's rebel chief: "When you split a family, the whole family suffers." And besides, grumbled the rebels, the bishop had been swayed by Giglio donations of nearly $5,000 toward a new church. Despite the heat caused by such arguments, the villagers failed in their early-morning assault. Before nightfall...
Arrested by the British in Germany in 1945, Oberg and Knochen languished for nine years in Paris' Santé prison until in 1954 a Paris military court sentenced them to death as war criminals. Then came four more years in prison until finally last week French President René Coty ruled. In keeping with the general Allied policy of no longer exacting the death penalty for war crimes, he commuted the sentences of both men to life imprisonment...
...intercom. (Scarpia: "Let's turn up the sound!") Having killed Comrade Scarpia (Baritone William Chapman), Tosca hopes to spring her lover from jail and cries: "Once we are at the airport . . . we'll be free." In the end, instead of hurling herself off the battlements of Castel Sant' Angelo, Tosca stabs herself...
...friendship with France. But how could they be friendly toward France so long as the war in Algeria fans fanatical Arab hatred, gives France the excuse to garrison 80,000 French troops in Morocco, 30,000 in Tunisia, and keeps the top Algerian rebel leaders in Paris' Santé prison...