Word: italianisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...skyjacker himself was an especially unlikely sort. A young (20 last week), pleasant-looking Marine veteran of Viet Nam, Lance Corporal Rafael Minichiello was absent without leave from Camp Pendleton, Calif. The Italian-born lad thought the Corps had cheated him of $200 in pay. To get even, he had broken into a PX and was facing a special court-martial when he quit Pendleton...
About 200 police stood guard from a discreet distance. Pietro Guli, chief of the airport police, volunteered to go aboard. Eventually he re-emerged with Minichiello, who got into the back seat of Guli's Alfa Romeo, pointed his carbine and asked him in Neapolitan-accented Italian to drive away. Only three miles out of Rome, Minichiello ordered Guli from the car and then drove on a short distance before jumping out and heading across the fields. As some 800 police and four helicopters fanned out in search, Minichiello wandered through the vineyard-dotted countryside for more than four...
...tried to appear knowledgeable by commenting on the good restaurants in Inman Square. And not to be outdone Vellucci began to name the owners of every other shop, men of all different nationalities. "We've got Portuguese, Irish, Jewish, Italian, Chinese, Indian... There's an Italian pastry store, and that drugstore, no he's Portuguese...
...will probably top the ticket again and win election on the first round with votes from their respective bases among lower-income Irish and more affluent Irish. Vellucci will sweep up East Cambridge "number ones," add a few votes from Sullivan's surplus, get some more when weaker Italian and Portuguese candidates are eliminated, and make it into the winner's circle after a couple of days of counting the vote...
...more Republican among the Lindsay-haters. For a while it seemed Procaccino had the election wrapped up, if mostly because so many New Yorkers look so much like him and tend, therefore, to think him attractive. But even some Procaccino look-alikes (not all of whom are Italian, not by a long shot) have been turned off by Mario's latest foibles-like his badly overplayed academic history, capped by his presidency of an enterprise called Verazzano College...