Word: pizzas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been doing poorly all morning started to rise. The cheer turned to silence and then to boos as the stock, like a plane that has suddenly stalled, winged over and began to fall. At a trading station, a specialist berated a clerk who had just placed a slice of pizza on a pile of papers. "Dammit!" he shouted. "The bottom's falling out of the market, and you're stuffing your face with mozzarella...
...word was passed from transistor radio owners that the Pope had landed. Christine Bagley from South Weymouth, with her two daughters munching pizza beside her, explained, "I'm taking pictures for our grandmother in Braintree." Gregory Casey, 9, from Needham, in his baseball jacket, was ready. "I hope the Pope says something to the kids," his mother Mary Lou said. "They need religion, and they need a father figure. The Pope is a strong, athletic-type they can relate...
Made in America seems at first blush an odd title for a novel about the Mafia, but Peter Maas should be forgiven his irony. Sicily's best-known export has, of course, become as American as frozen pizza. As Maas has shown in The Valachi Papers and Serpico, Cosa Nostra reaches far below the imperial realms of The Godfather into virtually every working-class neighborhood where cash is short and the Mob's loan sharks cruise...
Summer is every man a king and every woman a queen. Maria Elizabeth Julio was named Miss Italian Festival in Baltimore and headed for the pizza stand; Sally Stallings was Queen of the Old Spanish Days Fiesta parade in Santa Barbara, Calif., and rode among 150 floats and strutting flamenco dancers...
...Voyager I flew past Jupiter this March, satellites that has been mere specks of light suddenly became full-fledged whirls, each with its own pecularities. Io, a conglomeration of soft red and white blotches, reminded one scientist of a cheese pizza. Eight volcanoes were photographed in mid-eruption. A frosty covering of ice dominated another of the satellites; still another is criss-crossed by ridges that resemble those caused by continental drift on earth. Eleven worlds have come into focus since Apollo...