Word: amado
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...craftsmanship in book production. His early lists emphasized Russian authors, but he also published Thomas Mann, T.S. Eliot, André Gide, D.H. Lawrence and Franz Kafka, among other eminent Europeans, and such U.S. writers as Willa Gather, H.L. Mencken, John Hersey and Samuel Eliot Morison, and Latin Americans Jorge Amado and Gilberto Freyre...
...Hondurans and the Salvadorans and to show that U.S. power is not rhetoric," said a senior U.S. diplomat. But the ostentatious making of waves, which seemed an attention grabber rather than a justified military maneuver, stirred resentment at home and abroad. Panamanian Foreign Minister Juan José Amado, whose country has been supportive of U.S. peace efforts, said such actions will "cause concern and tension" in Latin America. Congressman Barnes, who will be one of eight congressional consultants to the Kissinger panel, said, "I don't think the timing could be worse...
...General Wallace H. Nutting, head of the U.S. Southern Command. A visit to the Canal was especially meaningful for one Newstour participant, Veteran Negotiator Sol Linowitz, who helped accomplish the return of that waterway to Panama. Later, at lunch, President Ricardo de la Espriella and Foreign Minister José Amado III presented Linowitz with the Order of Vasco Nuñez de Balboa, Panama's highest honor, for his efforts on behalf of the 1978 treaty...
...success of their new lives. So far, there have been only about 5,000 refugees who have returned to agencies for help, but the number is expected to grow. Even some of the most ambitious Cubans have found the adjustment to the U.S. extremely difficult. One example is Amado Benitez, 29, who found a home in Chicago with his half sister just two days after his arrival in Florida five months ago. A professional welder, Benitez went looking for a job, but he could not find one because of his lack of English and the city's high unemployment...
...essays and novels reflect this fatalism, but she is nonetheless alive to others' sorrows and enthusiasms. The destruction of Amado's orchids in "Quiet Days in Malibu" by a flash fire confirms Didion's view of live as an unpredictable but inevitable series of large and small tragedies. In "The White Album," Didion notes that neither she nor her friends was surprised at the news of the Sharon Tate murders. She walks through her days anticipating horror, sporadically paralyzed by migraines, dreaming of "the children burning in the locked car in the supermarket parking lot...the freeway sniper who feels...