Word: antonios
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Major General Antonio Aranda Mata is still honored in Spain as the stubborn and victorious commander of the Franco forces in the bloody Civil War siege of Oviedo (1936) which lasted 91 days. But one night two years ago Franco police arrested Monarchist Aranda in a brewery where he had been meeting fellow members of the Comité Imperio de Coordination, a clandestine coordinating committee of anti-Franco underground groups. Aranda's civil war record bought him his freedom. He went into retirement, dividing his time between the reading room of the Club Casino de Madrid and his apartment...
...Faulkner, the British Open Golf championship, over Runner-Up Antonio Cerda of Argentina, 285-287; in Portrush, Ireland...
Undercover Men. In San Antonio, when city detectives voted for officers of the police association, the count showed 50 more ballots than detectives...
...gifts of successful supplicants. At the same church, Delia Ruiz, 24, lamented: "He pays no attention to me. I won't come any more. If he wants to help, he knows where I live." But Felipa Moreno, 27, had a glowing testimonial: "I can never thank San Antonio enough for the beautiful accident he provided me. Four years ago, I wanted a husband very badly. After my prayers, I was in such a state of ecstasy I rode the bus three blocks past my stop and jumped off while it was still moving. I broke...
...Antonio last week, two businessmen installed a slot machine which advertised a hangover remedy for 25?. The remedy: a 30-second sniff of pure oxygen (which some people believe will mitigate hangovers), taken through a cone which the user holds to his nose...