Word: sicilian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sicilian doctors' reasoning: a chemical cleansing bath is better than none, but it lacks so many of the factors usually found in blood that the patient loses some substances that are essential to life. Cellophane tubes of the type used in the artificial kidney will stop big protein molecules, so there should be no danger of a fatal antibody reaction. But they allow the blood's complex chemicals to pass freely if they are fully dissolved. So the protein-free part of the woman's poisoned plasma passed through both tube walls and into the sheep...
...free territory. But since then, Rome has turned a deaf ear to proposals that some of Italy's innumerable state-owned enterprises be moved to Trieste and that the city be granted the privilege of importing raw materials and exporting finished goods duty-free. Triestini complain that Sicilian-born Giovanni Palamara, Italy's prefect in Trieste, shrugs off their troubles by saying, "My own island suffers more...
...Swedish Academy dug way down in the literary barrel for this year's Nobel Prizewinner in literature: Sicilian-born Poet Salvatore Quasimodo, 58, onetime Communist and longtime friend of Red causes, a versifier whose intricate Italian style and deeply personal themes make him incomprehensible to most Italians. Quipped one Italian writer, mystified...
...rump party the Christian Social Union, choosing as its emblem a map of Sicily with a cross planted on its southern tip -where St. Paul is said to have planted one 2,000 years ago. And from a thousand ancient balconies he appealed skillfully to the age-old Sicilian conviction that "foreigners"-whether Saracen, Norman or mainland Italian-have only one interest in Sicily: the amount of plunder they can take out of it. "They have called me a Trojan horse," croaked Milazzo in a campaign-frazzled voice. "But I am not that. I am a pure-blooded Sicilian horse...
...Much? When the votes were counted in Sicily, the Christian Democrats learned the hard way the truth of the saying: "Never threaten a Sicilian; he has nothing to lose." Despite their efforts to sell themselves as the sole alternative to Red ruin, the Christian Democrats wound up with only 34 of the 90 seats in the regional assembly-three fewer than they had before, and not enough to rule. The Communists (21) gained a seat; so did the Red-lining Nenni Socialists (11). But the biggest gains were made by Milazzo, who captured a pivotal nine seats...