Word: ugo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Police Dogs & Walkie-Talkies. To take charge of the campaign against Giuliano, Scelba announced the creation of a special force of 2,000 young carabinieri, all from mainland Italy, and all unmarried. At the head of the new command he placed Colonel Ugo Luca, a robust, taciturn ex-army officer who holds eight medals for valor. Luca planned to use tough paratroopers as ground assault troops, set up small, highly mobile units equipped with machine guns, walkie-talkies and police dogs. The Italian treasury appropriated one million lire a month for the special anti-bandit campaign...
...liner Italia steamed into New York harbor last week with some unwanted cargo-six stowaways and a wayward Philadelphia war veteran named George Saddich. Saddich, complained Captain Ugo Chinca, had taken to throwing things overboard: ten fire hoses, six fancy ashtrays, two fire extinguishers, ten 50-lb. potted laurel trees, several dishes-and himself. Of all these, only Saddich was recovered from...
...Mussolini's recent power grab was of less interest than neighborhood scandal. But Carlino, the Fascist clerk, itched for the Second Wave that would bring revenge on his political enemies. And Maciste, the Communist blacksmith, glumly recognized the shattering defeat that Italian leftists had suffered. Fruit Peddler Ugo, his hotheaded disciple, broke with him over weakkneed party policy, but returned one night when he learned that the Second Wave was starting. They roared off on Maciste's motorcycle in a desperate attempt to warn their comrades, but the squadristi shot Maciste dead and wounded Ugo. He eluded them...
...foiled, the half-crazed Signora determined to punish the entire street; she bought up every house and ordered wholesale evictions. But her fury brought on a stroke that left her a speechless idiot, while the Fascists collected the rent on her houses and hunted down young Communists like Ugo to tighten their political stranglehold...
...they were married. Perhaps if they had gone to a more impersonal place, the original plan would have worked out better. But Adele's apartment was a home, redolent of strong emotions. In it lived Adele, a tough-faced old woman, "all leather and insomnia"; her husband Ugo, a gentle soul who felt in his bones the sufferings of his countrymen ; their son Antonio, an embittered ex-soldier who had welcomed the American soldiers but now hated them for their attentions to Italian women. It was a house where one could love or hate, but where no one could...