Word: sciacca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...include concerts, processions and evening illuminations. The society of San Giueppe di Riesi will celebrate July 28-30 and that of San Giuseppe di Pietra on Aug. 4-6. Others who have not yet set a date are those of Maria Santissima della Cava di Pletraperzia, San Calegro di Sciacca and the Madonna di Anzano...
...half of the bare whitewashed courtroom of Sciacca, Sicily, is taken up by three enormous cages of stout iron bars. On wooden benches inside the cages last week sat 178 scowling swarthy Sicilians, all soberly dressed. Scattered among the prisoners were a few self-conscious carabinieri fingering their white shoulder belts nervously. Entered the jury that had been deliberating for four days. "Guilty!" - in crisp official Italian, the judge pronounced sentences...
...three big iron prisoners' cages at Sciacca. Sicily last week 185 were placed on trial. The total would have been 214 except that the rest were "sick in their cells," according to the warden of Sciacca's jail...
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