Word: attila
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...this week's pivotal Pennsylvania primary, Mayor Frank Rizzo was hoping to play kingmaker for his friend Senator Henry Jackson. But the burly Rizzo -who vowed during his own campaign last year that "I will make Attila the Hun look like a faggot" and won re-election with 57% of the vote-has got himself into deep political trouble. A former cop and police commissioner from South Philly's tough "Little Italy" district, Rizzo, 55, is accused of failing to uphold law-and-order in the city. Having campaigned on the slogan "He held taxes down...
...characters appear onstage about as often as there is a lunar eclipse. That is what makes the arrival of Norman, the pint-sized anarchist of Alan Ayckbourn's trilogy, an occasion of happy terror. The most satisfying laughs are those induced by determined worms, and Norman is an Attila of the worm world...
...Lownes is so dedicated to cutting expenses that he is known within the company as "Attila" (or, on more recent occasions, "Jaws"). "We are going to be thin and lean," he vows, sitting in a Chicago office that has neither furnishings nor secretary. Since taking up his duties in Chicago last May, Lownes claims, he has cut $2.8 million out of the home office's $8 million budget for operating the clubs and hotels. Among his moves: he has decided to discontinue VIP, a magazine for key holders, at an estimated saving of $800,000 a year...
...briefing and seemed to be bolstering Ankara's stance with the timing of his comment, as well. A day later, on August 14, the Turkish army fanned over the island until its troops had hemmed in at least 40 per cent of Cyprus. Turkish officers aptly named the plan Attila, for the chieftan who had devastated the area centuries before...
...fans at Watson Rink December 21 had to wonder if the team Harvard was outscoring, 6-3, really came from Brown University. Last year, former Bruin coach Allan Soares dressed Attila and his horde in Brown hockey uniforms and sent them out on to the ice at Watson to ravage Harvard, and leave a trail of 32 minutes of Bruin penalties, a game misconduct, a bloodied Kevin Burke and a 6-1 Harvard victory...