Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Take, for example, earlier this fall when Mackey was distributing fliers outside a Somerville grocery store. An Italian woman took one look at Mackey's educational background and frowned, "Harvard -- Communista...
...last seen on Aug. 2, walking on New York City's Fifth Avenue near his $500,000 apartment in the exclusive Pierre Hotel. Over the next ten weeks, his relatives and lawyers reported receiving letters-and even a photograph-that supposedly proved that he had been abducted by Italian leftist radicals. But police in the U.S. and Italy suspected that the missing man, Sicilian-born Financier Michele Sindona, 59, had arranged his own disappearance to avoid standing trial in New York on a 99-count indictment for bank fraud and in Milan on charges of swindling two banks...
Sindona maintains that he was abducted by Italian terrorists who wanted information from him about crimes committed by top Italian politicians, and that he was wounded when he tried to escape. Says his psychiatrist, Dr. George Serban: "If this gentleman was not kidnaped, he should get an Oscar for acting...
...with welding the ragtag tank, infantry and artillery units of the fledgling armored forces into an effective tool for modern, mechanized warfare. In 1943 Devers became European theater commander for U.S. forces under General Dwight D. Eisenhower; he later helped direct the Allies' North African and Italian campaigns and plan the Normandy invasion. In 1945 Devers succeeded General Joseph W. Stilwell as commander of U.S. Army ground forces. He retired four years later...
Cratylus: But consider the fastest member of the Harvard women's soccer team, whose first name is that of an agile animal and whose last name sounds like a fancy Italian sports...