Word: soccorso
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...Joseph Soccorso, a Cabot Library I.D.-card checker, said he barely noticed that a search had been conducted...
...them [policemen and firemen] come in here," Soccorso said. "I imagine they did search...
...festival for the Madonna del Soccorso, guardian of fishermen, was held last weekend. There were street fairs with band concerts to attract the secular, and special masses for the pious. Sunday's parade of the streets, starting in the early afternoon, was the biggest show. A statue of the Madonna, carried under a portable canopy, was led by brass bands through every street in the North End. A man with pins walked beside it, and gave them out to all to pin money onto the ribbons flowing from the canopy. The parade ended with a ceremony featuring prayers...
Last fall the Italian government looked around for new funds to plug a deficit in its Soccorso Invernale (Winter Help for the Needy). Already taxed were theaters, movies, authors' copyrights, railroad tickets, streetcar fares, ski lifts and admission tickets to gambling casinos and race tracks. The next step, the government decided, was to tax track bets as well. Last year Italian horseplayers bet 30 billion lire ($48,000,000), and 1% of that sum would have been ample to help the Winter Help. But a clerk in the Ministry of Interior tripped over his decimals in drafting...
...Well, our team is GREEN. DESIMONE. But TEHAN is quicker than the IZZI and we'll give 'em a SOCCORSO. New give me a little THOMPSON, or ALTIERI you limb from limb...