Word: dominick
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngest of five children born to Rocco Colavito, a sturdy, hard-working iceman, and Angelina Spodafino. Rocco and Angelina came separately to the U.S. in the early '20s from Bari, Italy, met and married in New York City. Rocky's boyhood heroes were his big brothers, Dominick and Vito, who taught him to throw and hit on the paved playing field of Public School...
Cromwell failed, says Author Macken, because of "little men" like Dominick MacMahon, who proved that the human back is stronger than the oppressor's whip. Surviving the siege of Drogheda-during which his wife is murdered and one child struck dumb-stubborn Dominick dodges his way through sacked and smoking Ireland accompanied by a saintly priest, helped by Irish guerrillas and making the customary hairbreadth escapes from gun and gallows. Author Macken brings such sweeping lyricism to this flight as to make it seem that plucky Dominick is battling his way the length of Siberia instead of the mere...
Crap Door. In Hartford, Conn., Dominick Granell was in a dice game that was raided by police, later complained that he was injured when he fell out a fourth-floor window while being chased by the law, sued the city for $15,000, settled for $490 at a pretrial hearing...
...shortage of young doctors in the U.S. is so acute that Congress should set up a commission to probe "all phases of medical education," Dr. Dominick F. Maurillo of Brooklyn told the New York State Medical Society. Main symptoms of the shortage: hospitals are scouring Europe and Asia to fill staff gaps left by a deficit of 7,000 interns...
School of Experience. In North Bergen, N.J., Hudson County Detective Dominick Meatto took three rookie cops for a training ride, said, "Now this is how you stop a car and search it," flagged down a passing auto, promptly arrested Driver Willie Smith when he found a loaded, unlicensed .45 in his glove compartment...