Word: mafia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agency relies heavily on paid informants. Many are poorly supervised and amateurish. But the FBI has been able to get inside countless organizations, including the Mafia, the Ku Klux Klan, the Black Panthers, and Students for a Democratic Society...
American politics once belonged exclusively to the Mayflower Mafia - men with names like Washington, Franklin and Hamilton. But over the past half-century, Capitol Hill has been successfully overrun by ethnics and immigrants of every flag and stripe. So much so that it becomes harder every year to pronounce the names of Senators and Representatives. Taking note of that fact, Congressional Quarterly last week published its own phonetic guide to the hardest names on the hill...
...retailer, asked if prices had gone up in response to the 18-year-old drinkers, yawned and said, "Oh sure, the Mafia ordered them all up this month." Regardless of that claim, the liquor business is swimming...
...situation White fears seems totally bizarre. Mafia leaders hardly seem the type to enroll their legions of hit-men and bookies as reporters for local Italo-American weeklies. Nevertheless there is a serious core to White's argument. Certainly, a distinction between 'legitimate' and 'illegitimate' newspapers is one to be avoided at all costs. But without such a distinction, there seems to be no way of preventing the unlimited extension of the journalist's privilege. If everyone who occasionally writes a pamphlet qualifies as a journalist, the day might come when it would be nearly impossible to get anyone with...
Shuffling onto the bare, makeshift stage of Boston's Church of the Covenant, Al Pacino's Richard could be taken for a failed Mafia assassin seeking asylum. The left sleeve of his green knit pullover bunches around some unspeakable wound of a hand. The yarn in the shoulder stretches obscenely over his hump. His cheeks quiver with little tics. His lips pout in private arrangements of humor and rage. When he speaks, Elizabethan English seems to acquire a Sicilian accent: Shakespeare out of The Godfather...