Search Details

Word: andalusia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

Abdullah was scheduled to make a fortnight's tour of Spain, including Andalusia in the south, where his ancestors once ruled. A Spanish man-of-war will bear him home. Thus shrewd Francisco Franco would finish an important knot in the net with which he is trying to snare support in the Arab world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Fillip for Franco | 9/19/1949 | See Source »

...still a matter of conjecture. He was never seen again. By some accounts the fascists took him to the village of Fuente-vaqueros, where he had been born 37 years before, and there at daybreak, when the first light was glittering on the tiles and window panes of Andalusia, shot him. He had written about this hour in his country...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Death at Daybreak | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...from the silence of the proletarian masses-forbidden to strike and restrained from means of uprising-unequivocal indications of their complete contentment." Ecclesia took Spain's leaders to task for failing to note ecclesiastical protests against injustices "for example, of absentee landlordism, a deep and endemic wrong in Andalusia, where few landlords ever know or see their possessions and where laborers live as they can on hunger wages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Talk & Silence | 2/4/1946 | See Source »

Growth of the Guerrillas. Obviously Franco preferred troubles abroad to troubles at home, but at home they were mounting too. In the mountains of Andalusia, the slopes northeast and northwest of Madrid, and the foothills of the Pyrenees, guerrilla forces, operating in 21 areas, had grown increasingly bold since...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Caudillo's Crisis | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

...National league umpires will have to carry a pocket-sized edition of Funk and Wagnalls into every argument at home plate. The Dodgers' educational standards will thus be lowered to an unheard-of extreme; it will be like throwing a Ted Lyons curve ball to a rookie straight from Andalusia of the Georgia-Florida League. Unless the Dodgers forego this unholy alliance, their rakish diamond tactics may soon be Whiffenpoofed to a grey-flannel sophistication...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Big Bums on Campus | 1/5/1943 | See Source »

| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | Next