Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Italian With English Subtitles...
...Harrington Elementary School, incumbent Independent Alfred E. Vellucci and challenger Tony LaFuente accosted entering voters in Italian and Portuguese respectively. "Numero Uno," "Numero Um," they called. "And the Irish are yelling `Number One!'" said Vellucci...
...voter approached Vellucci and LaFuente, saying in jocular accented English, "I'm Portuguese--how should I vote, Italian or Portuguese...
Salerno's win in the North End as an Italian candidate is typical of Boston's ethinically-oriented politics. But, Bob Case a spokesman for the Salerno campaign said that her appeal is not ethnic but issue-oriented and unifying...
...difference. Last March, George Wallerstein, an astronomer at the University of Washington, stunned mountaineers and geologists by declaring that the Himalayan mountain known as K-2 might be 36 ft. taller than Mount Everest, long thought to be the world's highest peak. This month, however, an eight-man Italian expedition, led by Geologist Ardito Desio, 90, refuted that claim. Using satellite signals and surveying techniques, they found that Everest towers 29,108 ft. above sea level -- 80 ft. taller than previously believed and 840 ft. higher than...