Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within this special relationship, the Puerto Rican constitution makers have had a wonderful time writing their home-rule charter. Elected delegates headed by Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Antonio Fernós-Isern, conned every line of the U.S. Constitution and the 48 state charters. With such expert constitutionalists as Harvard's Carl Friedrich on hand to advise on sticky points, they wrote draft after draft, debating each clause like so many tropical Madisons and Hamiltons. Their bill of rights, written under the guidance of University Rector Jaime Benitez, is their special pride & joy. Revising Thomas Jefferson, it proclaims...
Until recent years, if the name of Antonio Vivaldi (circa 1678-1740) appeared on a concert program at all, it was usually linked by a hyphen to the name of Bach, who transcribed a goodly number of Vivaldi's works. Little was known about Venetian Vivaldi himself. The main facts: 1) he was a red-haired priest who had to stop saying Mass because of his choking attacks of asthma, 2) he traveled all over Europe as a violinist, and 3) he was "feeble and sick, yet lively as gunfire...
...remote little town of Ciudad Rodrigo, near the Spanish-Portuguese border, Franco talked for two days with Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Salazar, emerged with a mutual declaration that the two countries consider the Iberian Peninsula "a strategic unity." In other words, Portugal, a NATO member, is telling the West that it cannot play its full part in West European defense without Spain...
...part of the army joined them; at the last minute, top commanders swung their forces behind the junta government of General Hugo Ballivián. Bringing reinforcements from outlying towns, the government counterattacked with planes, artillery and mortars. Early next day, the M.N.R.'s top army supporter, General Antonio Seleme, thought the rebel cause lost and took refuge in the Chilean embassy...
...Marine Captain Lloyd W. Williams, who, when ordered to retreat at Belleau Wood in World War I, replied: "Retreat, hell! We just got here.") Passed by a special ruling of Hollywood's censors, the forbidden screen word "hell" has already met with censorship troubles elsewhere. When a San Antonio radio station objected to the word in a commercial, the picture was referred to on the air as Retreat, Heck...