Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...specific effort to improve both the security and the morale of U.S. troops on the ground in Lebanon, the Administration announced that the Marines had been authorized to call for air strikes and naval gunfire from the U.S. fleet, not only for themselves but also for the French, Italian and British contingents of the multinational peace-keeping force and, if necessary, for the beleaguered Lebanese Army...
...Mark Ptashne, professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, summer was just a time to continue things; the research that he does during the year and an annual month at an Italian music school, studying the violin...
...reconnaissance flights. In reality, they were sounding a warning to Druze militiamen in the Chouf Mountains of Lebanon: from that day forward, the planes could be ordered to strike and destroy any artillery that continued to fire at troops of the four-country multinational force. The American, French, Italian and British troops had come as "peace keepers," to shore up the beleaguered government of President Amin Gemayel. Slowly and inexorably, however, they were being drawn into a maelstrom in which Lebanon's perennially warring factions continue to battle each other for political power...
Snobbery is always preposterous but also sometimes useful. "The use of forks at table," observes the English writer Jasper Griffin, "seemed to our Tudor ancestors the height of affectation, so, the first to follow that Italian custom doubtless did so, in large part, to impress their neighbors with their sophistication. Evolution itself is a process of rising above one's origins and one's station." The writer Sébastien Chamfort located what is surely the ultimate snob, a nameless French gentleman: "A fanatical social climber, observing that all round the Palace of Versailles it stank of urine...
...into the markets in East Cambridge and ask the Italian and Portuguese women if they have ever set foot in the Harvard Yard. Almost all of them will answer...