Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...lack of any specific pledges by the U.S. to help stabilize exchange rates, and the absence of any willingness in Washington to take any immediate steps to act on the vague promises made, helped push the French franc and the Italian lira to new lows last week against the dollar...
...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...
MARRIED. Anastasio Somoza ("Tachito") Portocarrero, 30, oldest son and onetime heir apparent to the late Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle; and Marisa Celasco Oberholzer, 24, Salvadoran socialite daughter of a Swiss mother and Italian businessman father; both for the first time; in Miami...
Billings, who was less successful than Kennedy with women and who never married, was the target of some of J.F.K.'s affectionate jokes. The President once invited Greta Garbo to dinner at the White House with Billings, who was immensely proud of having squired the actress around the Italian Riviera the previous summer. By prearrangement with Kennedy, Garbo loudly professed never to have set eyes on Billings before that evening...
Moravia's ostensible subject is suicide. His 27-year-old Italian hero, Lucio, is headed for Capri on holiday in 1934, the fateful year that was Mussolini's twelfth in power and Hitler's first. On the boat from Naples to the island, the young anti-Fascist asks himself: "Is it possible to live in despair and not wish for death?" At that moment his eyes lock with those of a German tourist, a teen-age girl who transfixes him with a pleading, desperate look. Lightning strikes. The girl, Beate, is accompanied by a husband as wickedly...