Word: terni
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general strike; to Italian leftists, steelworkers are known as the "motorized divisions of the Communist revolution." In Florence, city employees were on strike, in Messina the printers walked out. In Catanzaro it was the building workers, and in the Venetian province the railway and streetcar workers. In Terni, demonstrating workers carried posters denouncing the Pope as a "starver of the poor," and suggesting that Premier de Gasperi be hanged. Most serious of all was the battle of the fields: almost 1,000,000 agricultural laborers in the Po Valley were on strike, endangering Italy's desperately needed rice crop...
Donna Rachele Mussolini, Benito's 56-year-old widow, now at the Terni internment camp under British protection, confessed that she wanted to bring up her children in the U.S. and might make some money lecturing: "We should have gone to America when we first got married. We planned to do it. . . . But then Mussolini changed his mind...
...Tiber. In the mountainous center the Eighth Army kept the Germans more heavily engaged. British troops captured industrial Terni, ancient Spoleto, once famed for its castle where Lucrezia Borgia ruled. Then they moved northwestward up the Tiber valley. One armored regiment took so many prisoners that help had to be sent to bring them...