Word: truckful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before 60,000 Romans in the jammed Piazza del Popolo, Palmiro Togliatti, Italy's No. 1 Communist, laid down the new line. Clad in a grey, double-breasted suit, he mounted a flag-draped truck, lashed out in a high-pitched voice against the "tortuous and Jesuitical policy" of the Western powers. "These powers do not want peace on our Eastern frontier," he charged. "Their declaration . . . amounts to ... an invitation to prepare for war." As for Trieste: "I repeat that after April 18 and the victory of the Democratic Front, we shall have peaceful accord with Yugoslavia within...
Demonstrators also rushed a lingerie truck delivering too cream to the Club's kitchen, and made up a new College cheer, "H-A-R-V-A-R-D phooey...
Christian Charity. When Father Lombardi left the theater, the crowd forced him to the top of a parked truck. "Down with Communism!" they roared...
...Roses. In Naples, the same week, Father Lombardi landed at the Capodichino airport-just as a huge truck sped into the city, bearing, under a gilded, pillared canopy, the picture of the Madonna di Pompeii. A salvo of 21 guns sounded in greeting, showers of flower petals filled the air and hundreds of thousands of candles were...
...cliffs of Washington's Puget Sound. Lately he and a young Nisei friend named Yonemitsu Arashiro have been living in a forest lean-to and doing what they call "rock painting," which is not painting at all. Graves and Yonemitsu load heavy rocks on their truck, haul them to their backyard, then spend days wrestling the huge boulders into arrangements that please them...