Word: subbiano
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...wartime buddies in the Italian underground, Subbiano's two top Communists made a fine team; tough Mayor Sabatino Cerofolino had the brawn and wily Party Secretary Italo Nofri had the brain. But Italo Nofri also had a wife Bruna, whom he called "the prettiest girl in all Subbiano." Despite the fact that her husband and his friend had succeeded in converting a majority of her fellow villagers in the little Apennine town to Communism, Bruna remained an ardent Roman Catholic. She even insisted that their son be sent to study in a Catholic school, and despite his own deep...
Last week, in the 14th century courtroom of nearby Arezzo, Subbiano's Mayor Cerofolino was tried behind closed doors, found guilty of blackmail, coercion and moral turpitude, and sentenced to two years at hard labor and the loss of his civil rights for 20 years. "None of this," growled ex-Mayor Cerofolino, "would have happened if Nofri had stayed in the party." That night the Communist Party at Subbiano, which had prepared a riotous welcome home for Mayor Cerofolino, went on a rampage around town instead, and stormed the house of the Nofri family. A special squad of carabinieri...
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