Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Coming to the States to study hasn't been too hard because I'm used to going into new environments," said the fluent speaker of French, German, English, Spanish and Italian...
...much awed as numbed. Who were-and are - the people who could construct such fantasies? What else have they wrought? Are there other such marvels and monstrosities to be seen or expected? The Foreign Friend, as he is designated today, faces the same quandary that confronted the great Italian: Can I record half the things I have witnessed? Will anyone believe me if I describe them...
...legislation should trim the U.S. trade deficit and bolster the dollar. Next day the dollar hit yet another record low against the deutsche mark, dropped against the Swiss and French francs, the Dutch guilder and the British pound, and even sank to a 31-month low against the weak Italian lira. The apparent reason: moneymen concluded that if this is all the hope Carter has to offer, the dollar is still in trouble. Confidence in the dollar has so eroded that it sometimes plunges sharply these days with no specific news at all to account for the drop...
Williams, who made his prediction in an interview with the Crimson following the death of Pope John Paul I, is a personal acquaintance and correspondent of the new pope. He said this week that he believed the cardinals would choose Wojtyla--the first non-Italian elected pope in 455 years--because of a desire to do something "genuinely spectacular" following the death of John Paul...
...only 58 years of age, they argued the new pontiff will probably enjoy a long reign, which would keep the Church from facing the instability of a papal death in the near future. Furthermore, they said, the election of a non-Italian--especially a cardinal from Eastern Europe--might well free Italy's Christian Democratic party from the almost incestuous ties with the Vatican that many experts believe have limited its political freedom in recent year...