Word: pisciotta
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With the exception of Michael Corleone, Turi Guiliano is the shallowest major character in the novel. He reads good books, idealizes justice and respects religion. But if he has a thought subtler than how to trap his enemies, he keeps it to himself. By contrast, Aspanu Pisciotta, the hero's friend and chief lieutenant, has a vivid psychology that eventually sustains Horace's 2,000-year-old observation that "Sicilian tyrants never invented a greater torment than envy...
Mafia's decline dates from the Italian government's success six years ago in arranging the murder of famed Mafia Leader Salvatore Giuliano by his cousin Gaspare Pisciotta (TiME, July 17, 1950). thereby not only ridding Mafia of one of its most powerful leaders but also destroying that confidence in each other that was the Mafia's most compelling...
...doubtful that any treatment so far devised for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (a form of leukemia that affects older adults) prolongs the patient's life, said Marquette University's Dr. Anthony V. Pisciotta, but it is possible to prolong useful life by transfusions, X ray and drug treatments which reduce unsightly tumor masses and control anemia. Two effective drugs: T.E.M. and a new one named chlorambucil...
...Italy was alive with theories about who killed Pisciotta. The fascist and Communist press did their best to put it on newly appointed Premier Scelba's administration, but had no evidence to go on. Others whispered the dread and legendary name of Mafia. But in Sicily, where the ways of bandits are better understood, the people cared little for such sophisticated argument. For Sicilians, it was enough that an informer had been killed...
...Gaspare Pisciotta's dead body was borne from the church in the small town of Montelepre to the little cemetery on its outskirts, it passed the drygoods shop of Mariannina Giuliano, Salvatore's sister. The windows were banked high with cheerful red carnations, as if for a village festival. "At last," signed Giuliano's vindictive old mother, Maria, when the procession wound by her house, "the big-mouthed one is silent...