Word: unita
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Quasimodo: "Pasternak is as far from this generation as the moon is from us." Quasimodo is an expert of sorts on lunar matters: after the U.S.S.R. launched its first satellite in 1957, he turned out an ode titled The New Moon for Italy's Communist daily L'Unita...
...relationship violated the precepts of both church and state, but it got the sanction of the Central Committee of the Italian Communist Party in closed session. Nilde Jotti became known everywhere, even in the pages of the party newspaper L'Unita, as "la Compagna" (the companion) of Togliatti. She traveled with Togliatti to Russia as his "secretary" while Stalin was alive. After Stalin's death, Georgy Malenkov publicly referred to her as Togliatti's "companion," and Anastas Mikoyan even introduced her as "Mrs. Togliatti...
Togliatti "never bet a cent on Khrushchev," continued Seniga. "He thought he was worth very little." Togliatti's newspaper L'Unita called the turn wrong on Zhukov, thinking the marshal was about to be promoted instead of sacked. Each morning for three years, Togliatti reportedly walked into Communist Party headquarters in Rome with the same question: "What news from the peasant?" Whenever the reply was "Nothing new." Togliatti would sigh, "Then today we can work in peace." After Hungary brought a flood of desertions from the Italian Red Party, Togliatti told an intimate: "See where Khrushchev has brought...
...reported that she was well and that data about her physical condition were being radioed to earth. On the seventh day the Russians reported as usual on the motions of Sputnik II but did not mention its famed passenger. Two days later Italy's Communist newspaper L'Unita reported that the dog had been killed by a drug in her last portion of food...
...void. The farmers were all but bankrupt. The valley workers had lost more in crop shares than they could hope to regain in years of unremitting effort with hoe and spade. But the Communists had won their strike and reaped their harvest of hate. Crowed the Italian party organ Unita: "We have entered a new phase of major labor warfare...