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Word: aguilar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furthermore. In Chiapa, Mexico, the superior court sentenced Roberto Aguilar to 20 years for killing his father, directed that he be "admonished and reprehended so he will not do it again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 2, 1957 | 9/2/1957 | See Source »

...Argentine exile. The unrest that followed may have helped convince Odria that his successor should be a civilian. Half a dozen, all from the wealthy right, are vaguely available. Among them: ex-President Manuel Prado, fondly remembered for staging 1945's free elections, and Foreign Minister David Aguilar. But whoever runs, only one vote will really count. That is the vote of Manuel Odria himself, who says, glancing at the blueprints on his desk: "All this must continue. I will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Progress to Prosperity | 6/13/1955 | See Source »

Just look what happens to our big stars when they go to South America." Before the week was out, Matador Bienvenida could point to two examples of just how tough Latin American bullfighting can be. One example was provided by one of Mexico's top matadors, Jorge Aguilar, who was carried to the hospital with a deep horn wound in his right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: The Not-So-Brave Bulls | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...actual death and 4) the re-establishment of friendly relations. When the fine gets so high that the compensation machinery breaks down, tribal war follows. That was what happened two years ago when Jose Velasquez, one of the Epieyus (Blackbird) chiefs, got liquored up and gunned down Jose Aguilar, a chief of the Epinayu (Weasel) tribe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: The Quaint Men of Guajira | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

...from each tribe, dressed in necklaces, dirty shirts and bright loincloths knotted in front, met on the broiling plain. The aggrieved Weasels demanded 4,000 goats for Aguilar's death, plus war reparations. The Blackbirds balked at so costly a fine. Both factions then agreed to stage a man-to-man combat between Murderer Velasquez and a Weasel named Crazy Horse. Crazy Horse came out of the fight wounded and sulking, and threatened to commit suicide to distress the Blackbirds. At this impasse, last week the Guajiros appealed to the Venezuelan government to negotiate a peace. Pending arbitration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CARIBBEAN: The Quaint Men of Guajira | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

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