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Word: silenzio (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...newspapers in the middle of the street. Once, interrupted in his meditations by a horn insistently honking in the Piazza Venezia below, Mussolini shouted an order that all "acoustic signaling" be forthwith prohibited in Rome. Romans whispered sadly that their "city of noise" had become the città del silenzio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Befana Calls on the Cops | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

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