Word: alvarado
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...aborigines, created in Guatemala a culture that included sculpture, arithmetic, writing and trade (in textiles and featherwork) over a net of fine roads-though they had neither domestic animals nor the wheel. But earthquakes, plagues and tribal wars so weakened them that in 1523-26 Spanish Captain Pedro de Alvarado's 120 horsemen and 500 foot soldiers were able to subjugate 2,000,000 Indians. Spain made Guatemala the viceregal capital of Central America, and enslaved the Indians as plantation labor; an Indian caught riding a horse got 100 lashes. The viceroyalty threw off the rule of Spain...
...Enemies of the People." Trouble began when Gabriel Alvarado, director of the National Orphanage and an avowed Communist, dismissed three Roman Catholic nuns of the Sisters of Charity, which founded the orphanage in 1867. A mob, made up largely of market women and university students, broke into the orphanage, beat up Alvarado and his aides, Another mob smashed up the offices of the Communist newspaper Octubre...
...Save the Nation." President Arbenz declared a state of siege, suspended constitutional guarantees for 30 days, banned gatherings and meetings "likely to affect public order." Then, in a gesture to antiCommunists, he dismissed Marxist Alvarado, appointed as the new orphanage director Roman Catholic Ernesto Cofino, who reinstated the three nuns...
...story, such as it is, is concerned with Pirate Laurent Van Horn (Paul Henreid), an ex-Dutch sea captain, fat, dastardly Spanish Governor Don Alvarado (Walter Slezak) and aristocratic Francisca (Maureen O'Hara). There is all sorts of high-spirited romancing, pirate treachery, Iberian cruelty and slashing sword play before Van Horn and Francisca finally sail away together into an almost overpoweringly golden sunrise...
...sleeping gulls." Here they lead an idyllic life, described by Poet MacLeish in beautiful detail. But their attempt to make their security more secure, by holding Montezuma hostage, leads to their ruin. When Cortes goes back to Cempoala, to fight off some Spaniards sent after him by Governor Velasquez, Alvarado, left in charge at Mexico City, gets into trouble with the natives. When Cortes returns, Montezuma is slain by his own people who, hornet-mad, drive the conquistadors from their paradise. The following spring the vengeful conquistadors raze the city, build a Spanish town, with streets squared "and the church...