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Word: gioia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nicknamed neighborhood men gather at Rose's Tavern for a glass of beer from the 7-ft. wooden cooler. Then they drift out back toward the grape arbor for a game of boccie. On Wednesdays, Amelia Garavaglia, 76, flours her plump, competent hands in the back room of Gioia's Corner Market and begins rolling out 5,000 ravioli for sale hi the front room. Each evening, Ida Galli switches on the spotlight hi her front yard-not to scare away burglars, but to illuminate a 3-ft.-high statue of the Blessed Virgin. It is all part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: St. Louis: Pride on the Hill | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

Another arrested suspect was Vincenzo Mammoliti, 43, an olive-oil dealer from the Calabrian coastal town of Gioia Tauro, who reportedly spent 22 years in the U.S. and is said to be a member of a Mafia-like family of Calabrian criminals. His brother, Saverio Mammoliti, an escaped convict with a criminal record that includes armed robbery, vanished before the police sprang their trap. Of the eight men arrested, at least three were found with some of the marked ransom money. But police so far have refused to divulge how much of the ransom has been recovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Catching the Kidnapers | 1/28/1974 | See Source »

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Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: O Terrore, O Gioia! | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

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