Word: cosa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Crimson has recently obtained copies of FBI files which show that the FBI included King's Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in its harassment of "black nationalist hate groups." Additional files show that the FBI tries to provoke a "fight" between the Communist Party and "La Cosa Nostra" through a campaign of bogus letters and misinformation between the two groups...
...would be worth more to him than his contract and tipped them off. Gambino awarded him a place on the Mafia's supreme council, the Commission, but Colombo was shunned as a stool pigeon and small-time hood by other leaders. Police speculated that his violation of the Cosa Nostra's traditional oath of silence, with his highly visible activities in the league (one aim of which was the elimination of the word Mafia from the U.S. lexicon), triggered the assassination attempt that left him almost completely paralyzed...
LOOK'S LIBEL. When Look magazine accused San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto in 1969 of being "enmeshed in a web of alliances with ... La Cosa Nostra," Alioto filed a libel suit for $12.5 million. The story, plus other legal troubles (a federal mail-fraud indictment against Alioto was dropped, and he won a civil suit over allegedly improper legal fees), helped to undermine the mayor's ambitions for the California governorship. But three times the libel case went to trial (in 1970, '72, '76), and three times the juries could not agree...
Under the Diem regime, Minh gained renown as a brave "soldier's soldier" in the campaign he led in the 1950s against the notorious Binh Xuyen bandits, a kind of Vietnamese Cosa Nostra (also known as the "whorehouse gang") that pillaged the countryside and controlled vice in Saigon. Blunt, athletic and honest, he was given the sobriquet "Big" by U.S. military advisers because he was unusually large for a Vietnamese-nearly 6 ft. tall and 200 Ibs. Minh impressed Diem and in 1958 was appointed the first boss of a field-operations command that coordinated the mounting war against...
...unquestionably the greatest observer of the real world in his time, and the breadth of his inquiries would be inconceivable in ours; but this is the same Leonardo who, on cutting a pen, scribbled as his customary test sentence some variant on the melancholy words, "Dimmi, dimmi se maifufatta cosa alcuna "- "Tell me, tell me if anything ever got done...