Word: bonannos
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DIED. JOSEPH BONANNO, 97, inveterate godfather of organized crime, don of one of New York's five original Mafia families and self-admitted member of "the Commission," a ruling council of the criminal underground; in Tucson, Ariz. Born in Sicily, he made his start as an enforcer among the speakeasies of Brooklyn before becoming head of the Bonanno family at 26. He disliked his nickname in the press, "Joe Bananas," but he was one of the lords of the underworld from the 1930s until the "banana wars" of the '60s resulted in his exile to Arizona. He always denied that...