Word: italianize
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...older. They come from a hymn of praise to a creator-god, written some 45 centuries ago and preserved in the buried remains of the ancient city of Ebla, in present-day Syria. Between 1974 and 1976, 16,500 tablets and fragments were unearthed by a team of Italian archaeologists at Ebla, perhaps the most complete record of an ancient civilization ever recovered...
...This is a place much better than anyone could have imagined. People are so open, so friendly and helpful," Piero Benetazzo, a correspondent for La Repubblica, an Italian newspaper, said...
Lumet wisely does not go the ethnic cross-section route in selecting Ciello's fellow cops, avoiding the one Black, one Jew, one Irishman, one Italian and one WASP solidarity of scores of war movies. The New York Police force, its press releases notwithstanding, still operates in ethnic cliques, still works on a team concept. Lumet does not dress it up with any phony cross-cultural exchange. Even though more artistic exploration has focused on the criminal class than on its pursuers, anyone who has bothered to look at cops has seen the remarkable, almost symbiotic relationship among them...
...politics--they created. St. Paul's, a block from Quincy House, had 1200 students in Sullivan's schooldays, and there were other Catholic schools in every parish of the city. And you don't have nearly as many three-deckers crammed with immigrants. "There were great numbers of Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, and, naturally, Irish," Sullivan says. "There were just loads and loads of Irish," he adds...
...began an obsession that ended last week when a ship's rusty safe was consigned to the shark tank of the New York Aquarium. Twenty-five years ago, on July 26, 1956, only eleven hours after colliding with the Swedish liner Stockholm, the Andrea Doria, flagship of the Italian Line, sank some 250 ft. down to the continental shelf. Fifty lives were lost. The next day Department Store Heir Peter Gimbel, then 28, went chugging out to sea looking for the buoy that marked the Andrea Doria 's grave about 50 miles south of Nantucket. Gimbel dove through...