Word: prided
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Italian Sausage. There is a strong sense of ritual, both religious and community, on the Hill, where 90% of the population of 6,500 is Italian and 95% Catholic. There is also a bursting pride in the rows of narrow, well-scrubbed houses and in the family-run corner stores, where links of fat Italian sausage dangle in long rows. Many residents are direct descendants of the immigrants who left Lombardy at the turn of the century to work the clay mines of St. Louis under the hill that gives the section its name. Life on the Hill...
Polizzi determined to change things. e began delivering sermons urging the residents to regain their lost sense of spirit and pride. He also made a point of cultivating leaders of the area's strong Democratic organization...
...serious bar--a television and a juke box. The decoration of the bar consists basically of pictures of John F. Kennedy while he was at Harvard, and they illustrate perfectly the status of the bar in Cambridge--it takes the patronage of Harvard students, but I suspect the pride in Kennedy is basically pride in a Boston Irishman who became president, and not in a Harvard boy who made good...
...time before in lieu of tax payments, strikes, and demonstrations, Harvard was the pride and joy of the city...
...balance was held by self-styled populist Al Vellucci, who had supported control in the past. Vellucci loves to play to a crowd, or an issue. On the council floor, he will pace like a country lawyer, cross-examining witnesses and fellow councilors with a sarcasm tinged with ethnic pride. While the liberals complained about Danehy's attempt to split their coalition, Vellucci played coy, talking about the dilemma he faced deciding how to vote...