Word: accents
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BASE of this school for soldiers is the fourth class system, a social system which allows a first class cadet to stop a plebe headed for bed at 1 a.m. and demand that he "talk" because he's heard the freshman is Australian and has an interesting accent. It starts on day one--"R" day they call it at the Point--when the new cadets come in at 8 a.m. and by 5 p.m. are shorn, supplied and marching in military formation...
...profits follow the same flight plan back to Sicily. Police at a Palermo airport once seized two suitcases containing $497,000 in crisp U.S. bills before they could be delivered to a mysterious trafficker known to authorities only as a "tall man with red hair speaking with a Milanese accent." On another occasion, police stopped a local gangster as he was attempting to cash two certified checks that were issued by a Brooklyn bank and totaled more than...
...Everybody is kinda making a mockery," plebe Vince Alonso said. "Young know, going around saying, 'Beat Hahrvahd,' with this phony British accent...
First-year Army coach Ed Cavanaugh is skipping the accent, but if his rejuvenation program for the cadets is to proceed efficiently, beating Harvard rates as imperative. The Cadets bottomed out last year, losing their last seven games (including a 31-7 humiliation Navy) under much-disliked coach LouSaban. But Cavanaugh seems to have turned them around...
...nationalities, held the strike together. After pictures and newspaper accounts of the violence and the victory, the scene shifts to Angelo Rocco, an old man now. Standing on the banks of the Merrimack, he points across to the brick mills, now abandoned, and says in a heavy accent, "They called us un-American, but I really disagree with that. We were born in a foreign country, sure, but we love America much more than the owners of the mills...