Word: mancuso
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...village of Cicala (pop. 1,913), perched in the desolate mountains of Calabria at the southern tip of Italy. As the armed men crept into position behind walls and over tile rooftops, the villagers were suddenly awakened by barking dogs. Even before the police knocked on his door, Antonio Mancuso, 35, a local carpenter, knew it was over. "No," he shouted, "I won't open." An instant later he changed his mind and surrendered docilely...
Brown's pressure was finally converted into a score as an indirect kick was shuffled around in front and in the scramble Frank Mancuso kicked the ball home through a screen of Harvard and Brown players to tie the score at 1-1 with 6-11 left in the half...
...Some who have tried: Joe DiMaggio, Tommy Henrich, Dizzy Trout, Waite Hoyt, Gus Mancuso, Jack Graney, Harry Heilman, Gabby Street, Pie Traynor, Bump Hadley, Mickey Heath, Dizzy ("He slud into second") Dean, Buddy Blattner, Frankie Frisch...
Loulou had the bauble back safe in its rightful owner's hands within two hours, with no one the wiser. On one of his visits to Montmartre, he rounded up the notorious Mancuso brothers, international dope peddlers who presumably held the Paris concession from that great cartelist of dope, Lucky Luciano...
Francis X. Mancuso, former general sessions judge, crisply admitted to his longtime acquaintance with Costello and Luchese. His suave self-assurance unshaken, Mancuso also admitted that he had decided not to run again for leadership of an East Harlem assembly district after two local hoodlums had "advised" him to resign...