Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...helpful sign, the King would leap onto poor Dumbo's neck, the better to spear the enemy. If Hannibal had been so athletic, Carthage might never have fallen. The Singapore exhibit has a replica of a local market, right down to herbs, teas and garish magazines, and the Italian has replicas of Marconi's original radio sets...
...issue of contention was whether Libya should be named directly. Mitterrand, who had denied permission for U.S. jets from Britain to overfly France on their way to Libya, did not offer the expected opposition. | "Everybody will know whom we're talking about," he said, "so why not?" Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, whose country has the closest economic and emotional ties to its former colony Libya, was perhaps the most reluctant to go along. While Craxi eventually conceded, his bitter pill of support was sugared by an agreement to add Italy, as well as Canada, to the regular sessions that...
...says Hoge. Chicago Tribune Editor James Squires was so incensed by the NBC deal that he wrote his paper's editorial denouncing it. "They missed the news," says Squires. "We're in the news business and the news is 'Where is Abbas?' " (Though the U.S. Government refused to speculate, Italian authorities last week said the terrorist was in Tunisia and an extradition request has been made...
...equally comfortable discussing the fine art of steelmaking with her technicians or negotiating deals with customers. Says W.J. Robertshaw, spokesman for Davy McKee, a British builder of steel mills: "We tend to respect them very much as a power in the land. Danieli is a very resourceful Italian company...
Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher declared "mission accomplished." U.S. Treasury Secretary James A. Baker said, "It was a smooth summit." West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl proclaimed: "We were able to achieve good results." And Italian Prime Minister Bettino Craxi said he came away from the summit gathering "with full satisfaction...