Word: italianized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italian and Greek relatives of U.S. residents are filling up the quotas from those countries -because Congress permitted the relatives of constituents to pre-empt the refugee quotas. But no action has yet been taken on the amendments proposed by President Eisenhower to liberalize...
...take up arms in protest against the Café Gonin bombing and Grandval's "soft" policy. In groups of two and three hundred, European vigilantes stormed through the city, pillaging and burning native shops, overturning buses. Most vengeful were the Pied Noir (Black Foot), half-breeds of mixed Italian, Spanish and Moroccan blood and Morocco's equivalent of the South's "poor white," who hate the native Moroccans with a fury based on economic insecurity. In the heart of the city, rioters lynched one Moroccan, shot down two others with submachine guns, and clubbed the bodies with...
...expertly assess the jewels on neighboring matrons and debate whether to offer their services as escorts. Sauntering by in an endless stream are pretty, dark girls with swelling bosoms and swelling hopes of catching a producer's eye, gawking tourists from Germany, Switzerland or the U.S., or uninhibited Italian families who stop to stare, and sometimes guffaw...
...lunch, Via Veneto troops off to the Capriccio, where Ingrid Bergman, Gloria Swanson or Marta Toren may be sighted among a scattering of princelings, or the Colony Club, run by an Italian-American from Long Island who features hamburgers, chili con carne and "Mrs. Wagner's baked beans," all recipes drawn from Macy's Cooking Encyclopedia...
...five-year-old project, which boosted Greece's power output from 170,000 kw. to 345,000 kw., was an outstanding example of international cooperation. Of the $115 million total cost, 27% came from U.S. aid funds, 30% from Italian war-reparations payments, the remaining 43% from Greek funds. Equipment came from all over Europe, e.g., the 3,500 steel transmission towers were made in Italy, the generators came from Switzerland...