Word: tal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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People embraced everyone. There was more than just dancing in the streets--in Milan many danced on the rooftops of cars. Throughout the celebration thousands shouted cheers in unison. "I-TAL-IA! I-TAL-IA! I-TAL-IA!" they shouted over and over again. Or for the more vulgarly minded: "Brasilia! Brasilia! Vaffanculo...
...side were two carabinieri, the Italian uniformed authorities. They wanted him to put his pants on and get out of the middle of the street. For several minutes he steadfastly refused. The crowd backed him forcefully. "I-TAL-IA! I-TAL-IA! I-TAL-IA!" they shouted supportively reinforcing the lone man's patriotism...
...crowd continued its cheering. At last the man turned to his supporters and shouted a final "I-TAL-IA!" He waved his fist in defiance, then marched back to his Fiat parked in the middle of the street Slowly he undraped himself and put on his pants. The crowd loved it. Banners waved Women screamed. After a few moments more of encouragement, the throng moved...
...Those onetime friends were no longer as popular as they were before the U.S. announced its support for Britain on April 30. While there were remarkably few reports of personal mistreatment of either Britons or Americans living in Argentina, the signs of ill feeling were unmistakable. The Argentine magazine Tal Cual lampooned British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a "pirate, witch and assassin." Radio stations were playing fewer English and American records. The Franco Inglesa, one of Buenos Aires' fashionable pharmacies, last week pointedly dropped the Inglesa. Fearing an increase of hostility, the U.S. embassy last week recommended that...
...root what the Crimson had yesterday was a solid 8-1 win that raised the team's record to 3-0, not to mention a pretty good lead in to Princeton. John Dinneen, Tal Johnson, and Dinneen's younger sibling Peter all matched Lemmon's 3-0 example. Mitch Reese, Charlie Duffy, and Jim Lubowitz won in four games while Spencer Brog put on the most courageous show of the day at number five, recovering to win his match in the fifth game after squandering a big lead in the fourth...