Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leader in recent Italian history has been able to demonstrate the mastery of persuasiva that Premier Giulio Andreotti routinely employs. Having in a few weeks time derailed a crippling strike, guarded his nation's access to continued oil shipments and committed his monetary policy to the new European plan. Andreotti is being sternly tested once again. Already under attack from within his parliamentary coalition and even from fellow Christian Democrats, he will soon face a crucial vote on his new economic program. If he loses, Italy's fragile coalition government, which relies on the Communists for support, could...
Many observers judge that if Andreotti cannot put the economic plan across, then no Italian politician can. Though he is one of the West's lesser known political leaders, he is one of its most effective. Now 59, he entered politics in 1944 as a political apprentice to the late Prime Minister Alcide de Gasperi, the most respected of Italian leaders. Observes an admirer: "He was De Gasperi's tape recorder. He remembered everything and erased nothing." Andreotti has vast experience in government; he has held virtually every portfolio, including three previous turns as Prime Minister...
Under the tutelage of Carlo Fassi, the Italian who coached Dorothy Hamill and John Curry to zeniths on the ice, Tintti has gained a mastery of compulsory figures and a style and grace that have moved her very much into the international picture in Senior Ladies competition...
...Hell's Kitchen of 1946, Paradise Alley tells the story of three close-knit Italian brothers who are able to break out of New York's slums on the strength of faith, perseverance and the fortunate circumstance that one happens to be an excellent wrestler. Stallone's Cosmo is an aspiring hustler who let his hair grow and donned an earring to avoid the draft. He is supposed to be an eccentric, funny, loveable guy, with a kind heart and an abundance of home-spun wisdom. Stallone, however, fails to give his character any depth. Cosmo is an amalgamation...
...August of 1927, Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed for murder in Massachusetts. Sacco died shouting "Long- Live Anarchy!" but even before this, the American anarchist movement had already lost its momentum. Anarchism was inextricably linked with terrorism and foreigners in the minds of the American people, and foreign anarchists had been prohibited from entering the country in 1901. Other anarchists were deported, many were in prison, and some had been executed by the time Sacco and Vanzetti died in the electric chair...