Word: doll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...millions of newspaper-reader Italians, black-eyed Assunta Maresca, 24, has become known affectionately as Pupetta ("Little Doll"). Though northern Italians often deplore the vendetta morality of the south, Neapolitans hailed Pupetta as a worthy descendant of the old Camorra-the "honor societies" hired by noblemen to settle their differences by duels and vendettas. The noblemen have disappeared; today's Camorra members grew up in the thriving black markets of World War II, and boast that they even disassembled and stole an entire U.S. ship piece by piece-from the Bay of Naples.* Among those who lived...
...Miss Rovegliano." Little Doll first met Big Pasquale when, as a buxom peasant girl of 19, she won a beauty contest and became "Miss Rovegliano." They got along fine together until Big Pasquale ran afoul of an old friend, tough-talking Tony Esposito. There had been bad blood between the two men ever since Big Pasquale did time for hitting a man with a monkey wrench. When he got out of jail, he found that Tony had taken over the business...
...fast for him. True to the Camorra code. Big Pasquale told the police nothing, and everyone around-the shoeshine boy, the boy's customer, even the woman who sold the oranges-had sudden lapses of memory. But before he died in the hospital, Big Pasquale told Little Doll what had happened: Tony Esposito had sent The Ship around to kill...
...island in the Caribbean that calls itself a Free Associated State, or Commonwealth. El Mundo, the island's largest newspaper, admiring the tidy formality of the link to the Federal Government that the other noncontiguous territories achieved in statehood, called the commonwealth relationship "a sloppy and ridiculous rag doll." The Statehood Party (24% of the vote in the last election) took new hope. But the architect of commonwealth, Governor Luis Muñoz Marin (TIME cover, June 23), coolly got going on a plan to move Puerto Rico toward greater autonomy under the U.S. flag...
...heels, a key chain, a set of gold dental bridgework, nine pennies, 16 nails, two plastic bags, a toy wristwatch, a gold watchband, a fishing spinner, five clothespins, six can lids, two hypodermic needles, two earrings, a broken pop bottle, 24 bottle caps, half an inner tube, a rubber doll...