Word: legendes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...early Christian legend said that Irishmen were so pious that a rich, beautiful maiden could travel the length of the island unmolested...
Forgotten Legend...
...stomach were fat, his legs like a chorus girl's," she wrote in her 1959 memoir The Babe and I. As his second wife, she helped curb the Bambino's bacchanalian excesses during their 19-year marriage. After his death, she became the custodian of his legend. Though the Babe's home-run records (60 in a season, 714 in his career) were surpassed, she maintained, rightly, that "everyone will remember the Babe as the first...
...Aniello Dellacroce (translation: "Little Lamb of the Cross"), 62, who was Gambino's longtime underboss. A legend even among Mafia assassins, Dellacroce relishes doing his own dirty work. Says one federal official: "He likes to peer into a victim's face, like some kind of dark angel, at the moment of death." Dellacroce is a master of disguises. Known throughout the Mob as "Mr. O'Neill," he often donned priest's garb on his troubleshooting assignments for Gambino, earning his other name, "Father O'Neill." Dellacroce's men -undisguised-were at the motel meeting...
...Cincinnati Reds came to the World Series seeking their legend. The Big Red Machine was the reigning world champion, victor over the Boston Red Sox in one of baseball's most thrilling World Series ever. They had just demolished the Philadelphia Phillies in three straight games for the National League pennant. By the time they took the field against the American League's Designated Luddites, the New York Yankees, they were playing for their place in the pantheon of the game's great teams. When the four-game sweep of the hapless Yanks was over, they...