Word: subway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...February day in 1937, Benito Mussolini sent a pickax crashing into the pavement of the Piazza Bocca della Verità to break ground for Rome's first subway. A world war and his own inglorious death interrupted the work Mussolini began. When these greater events were not threatening its progress, Italy's archaeologists poked into the subway excavation and held up the work, to make sure that the tunnelers were not destroying any buried relics of antiquity. But somehow, despite all handicaps, Rome's subway got built. Last week, after 18 years and $20 million...
...Harvard Square subway kiosk may be completely removed to reduce traffic congestion, according to a plan under consideration by Cambridge - Arlington officials...
Foley has suggested running buses through the subway, but the MTA said that the cost of pumping out exhaust fumes was prohibitive...
Under the new plan buses would exchange passengers at the sidewalks, and subway entrances would be transferred to the walks bordering Massachusetts Ave. "The kiosk might then be turned into a grass plot," suggested McCann...
...climax. Michele drives the gawking neighbors out of his cold-water flat after Annina's vision. During a religious parade, he is beaten and shackled to a steel fence in symbolic martyrdom. He stabs his mistress after she accuses him of incestuous love for Annina. In a bleak subway station, he curses Annina when she insists on taking the veil. And finally Annina becomes the bride of Christ in a chilling ritual...