Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...decency, the majority has eagerly leapt at any chance to use disease, was or natural calamity to turn its fury on the unpopular minority. Jews in Europe were killed during the plague. Japanese-Americans were sent off to internment camps in World War II, while the politically powerful Italian- and German-American remained free...
...optimism on Wall Street in recent weeks is shared by traders abroad. Since January the London Stock Exchange has risen a record 53.1%, and West Germany's market 99.6%. In Milan, the main Italian market is up 114.1% for the year, while France's has experienced a 52.8% rise. Morgan Stanley's Biggs says that this "world stock-market surge" shows that investors anticipate a * "synchronized worldwide expansion." During the past few years the U.S. economy has been strong, while Europe limped along with low growth. Now Europe is moving forward quickly, even though the American expansion has slowed...
...Mubarak, the latest hijacking came at an awkward time. Only seven weeks earlier, the President's response to the terrorist seizure of the Italian cruise liner Achille Lauro had been criticized as indecisive, even duplicitous, and had strained Egypt's relations with the U.S. After the hijacking crisis in Malta, Mubarak is considered less likely than ever to risk the unpopular economic reforms that the U.S. and the International Monetary Fund have been urging upon him for the past year. The IMF wants Egypt to reduce its projected budget deficit of $1.3 billion for this year by drastically cutting subsidies...
...name was Aniello Dellacroce, which in Italian means "little lamb of the cross," and he took pleasure in killing people. "He likes to peer into a victim's face, like some kind of dark angel, at the moment of death," a federal agent once said of the Mafia chieftain. As underboss of the Gambino clan, the most powerful of New York's five families, he was a member and chief enforcer of "the Commission," the 11-member council that reputedly oversees organized crime around the U.S. Occasionally disguised as a priest under the alias of Father O'Neill, a play...
After the messy business of plot has been taken care of (in a scant 30 minutes), Stallone gets down to his bread and butter, training and fight scenes. The last hour of this short film is filled with flashbacks from the first three Rocky incarnations, scenes of the Italian Stallion hauling a sled full of chopped wood up a 90-degree cliff in training, and finally the American boxer stopping hundreds of punishing sounding blows with his forehead and chin and upper cheekbones. Apparently, Rocky thinks that masochistic training strengthens the bones in the human head to the extent that...