Word: informality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lando Buzzanca), a Sicilian yokel whose passion for honor is exceeded only by his lust for lucre, has hardly any difficulty deciding how much the honor of his bride (Maria Grazia Buccella) is worth. A few days later he discovers it was worth less than he thought. The police inform him that 1) the million-lira check has bounced, and 2) he will go to jail unless he can explain what he did to earn so much money...
...Administration's biggest complaints was the fact that no one had previously informed the White House about the pricing plans. And so, shortly before midnight, off went White House telegrams to steel magnates who had not yet decided what to do. This resulted in a certain amount of confusion. One Pennsylvania-based steel company chief executive was away from home as late as 1:15 a.m. When the phone rang, his teen-aged daughter answered, was startled to hear a Western Union operator inform her, she thought, that she was being invited to Washington to discuss the matter...
...attacks had not disappeared, last Saturday; it was merely frustrated by a Boston Police department, which, embarrassed by a conspicuous absence in front of be court, provided the march with heavy protection. In fact, wherever the march went, local police covered well. But it took only one slip to inform that the demonstrators were no more welcome in August than in April: on Monday the patrol care observing the walk disappeared momentarily outside of Marshfield, allowing 40 men and teenagers to set upon the demonstrators, briefly beat them, and destroy a number of their signs...
Martha S. Kocel, a SNCC staff worker, said that SNCC felt its main responsibility, at present, was to inform people about what HUAC does and "how to defend yourself against...
...testified, he and three other disaffected members of Dodd's staff-the Senator's secretary, Marjorie Carpenter; his office manager-bookkeeper, Michael O'Hare; and an office worker, Terry Golden - came to believe that Dodd was guilty of "serious wrongdoing" and felt "a definite obligation to inform the public and the authorities...