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Word: santeramo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1949-1949
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From the Communists there was smug mirth. Their press mocked America's "atomaniacs." In Italy, pro-Soviet Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni (just back from a 15-day junket to another "peace" congress in Moscow) proudly pinpointed the site of the explosion in "eastern Siberia." In the town of Santeramo near Bari, Communists got the news in the middle of the night, raced in nightshirts and dressing gowns to a hasty rally where a speaker promised: "We Communists will have our headquarters at the White House! Washington shall be ours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ATOMIC AGE: The Other Bomb | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

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