Word: lanny
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...Will you perform my wedding ceremony?" inquired pert Vittoria lanni, 22, daughter of a Rome street sweeper. The quick reply: Yes. But it was no humble priest the bold Vittoria had asked; at a papal audience for a delegation of sweepers that included her father, she put the question to Pope John Paul II himself. Vatican bureaucrats, already shaken by the new Pontiffs penchants for kissing babies, gladhanding crowds and holding impromptu press conferences, agreed this was another first; modern Popes traditionally perform the wedding ceremony only for their relatives or Vatican notables, certainly not for one couple, in this...
Abroad consensus seemed to be emerging that Roots would spur black identity, and hence black pride, and eventually pay important dividends. Said Columbia Sociologist Francis lanni: "The civil rights movement seemed to be stopping for a breather. This may be a significant turning point." Said Anthony Browne, an assistant vice chancellor at the University of California at Berkeley: "Roots sensitized a lot of people to the black situation...
Women are committing mostly petty offenses−only one in six homicides is attributed to a woman−but criminologists expect them to work their way up (or down) the ladder. Sociologist Francis lanni of Columbia University believes this trend is the "criminal analogue of the women's liberation movement. As in business, politics and education, there will be equal opportunities in crime. You can't have Bella Abzugs without Bonnie Parkers...
...Harrold of nearby Fort Hancock, former student at Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts. Corporal Harrold himself sang Don José. All other male roles were also sung by sweating Fort Hancockers. The Fort Hancock band blasted out a Carmen medley in lieu of the usual overture. Private Lanni Russell hurled himself into an interpolated tap dance (music not by Bizet...