Word: trattoria
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...nimbly at work on projects that range from the selling of nylons to the peddling of statues of the Virgin Mary. Fidelman desperately attempts to fend him off, first with handouts, then with insults, but Susskind clings like chewing gum to a shoe: he pops up in a trattoria to spoil Fidelman's appetite by hungrily watching him eat; he stands shivering at his side to shame Fidelman for having warm clothing. Given four dollars, Susskind contemptuously counts the money, demands: "If four, then why not five?" Giotto forgotten. Fidelman is systematically robbed and humiliated, but learns what wise...
...Central Committee that the word must be spread gently: Italian Reds would resent having been buggerato (hoodwinked). For the first time since his return from Moscow in 1944, Togliatti and the Soviet leadership are being criticized at cell meetings (and more openly over wine glasses at the corner trattoria after meetings...
...strike's last day was a meatless Friday, but at a little trattoria off the Corso Umberto the following noontime exchange took place between customer and proprietor...
...Duce was delighted. From one he took a bunch of flowers; another he chucked under the chin; at a third he cocked a roguish eye. In the best of moods he invited all the foreign correspondents present to lunch. In a body they moved on to a dusty little trattoria whose proprietor, trembling with excitement, rushed from house to house for extra supplies. The little inn's solitary waiter nearly died of stage fright...