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Word: dicara (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leanwhile, DiCara was getting ??t up by his school friends. He an???onized them by being the smart-??kid in the class. He was also guilty ?? being an Italian in an Irish neighborhood. Since then he has learned to honor the Irish. DiCara refers to his car as "green, Irish green...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Larry DiCara Story Or "How to Become Mayor of Boston" | 2/20/1971 | See Source »

...began to get the political bug bad," DiCara reminisced. "I liked the idea of being able to go around and have people say, 'Gee, that's Larry DiCara, and he's from Dorchester, and he's a pretty nice...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Larry DiCara Story Or "How to Become Mayor of Boston" | 2/20/1971 | See Source »

...that time he was at Boston Latin and wasn't getting beaten up as often. His political career was picking up steam, though he suffered from second thoughts for a while after John Kennedy was assassinated. "It was a real blow," DiCara said. "And then I started asking myself, 'Do you really want to get shot in the head...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Larry DiCara Story Or "How to Become Mayor of Boston" | 2/20/1971 | See Source »

...school elections came, one by one, DiCara kept entering and won most of the time. He was mastering his style of politics. "You couldn't get away from him; he was everywhere," one schoolmate asserted. "You could never walk by him without getting a big rap about how you were and all that bullishit...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Larry DiCara Story Or "How to Become Mayor of Boston" | 2/20/1971 | See Source »

...DiCara amassed a number of activities there that made him undisputed Boston champion in the brag list competition. He built up a dependable constituency and attracted other support by appearing at all the football games as head water boy dressed in purple sneakers, socks, pants, sweater, and beret...

Author: By Bennett H. Beach, | Title: The Larry DiCara Story Or "How to Become Mayor of Boston" | 2/20/1971 | See Source »

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