Word: batista
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After showing his countrymen the unusual spectacle of a dictator earnestly running for President, Cuba's Strongman Fulgencio Batista suddenly found himself running all alone this week. In a dramatic announcement only 36 hours before the polls were to open, his only opponent, ex-President Ramón Grau San Martin, withdrew from the race. Batista smilingly announced that the elections (for Congress, governorships and local offices as well as for the presidency) would go off as scheduled. But Grau's walkout had spoiled the strongman's plan. Batista's main purpose in scheduling elections...
...Frazer Corp., who now heads a uranium company; Director John A. Roosevelt, youngest of F.D.R'.s four sons, whose business ventures have ranged from department stores to home permanent waves; President Octavio Reyes Espin-dola, onetime Mexican Ambassador to Cuba and a close associate of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista...
...informer tipped off police that Aureliano Sánchez Arango, the elusive underground revolutionist (TIME, Nov. 2), was holed up with fellow plotters in a neat, palm-shaded and hedge-hidden house in the outlying Country Club District. The tipster claimed that the rebels were plotting President Fulgencio Batista's assassination. Police, reinforced by army troops, threw a cordon around the district. As 20 radio patrol cars converged on the quiet residence in West Royal Avenue, a group of men and one woman ran out and scattered, some in cars and some on foot...
While 1,000 cops and soldiers were still searching the district, President Batista put on a show of unruffled calm and laid the cornerstone for a new municipal hospital. At the same time Cubans added a new word to their vocabularies, inspired by Aureliano Sánchez Arango's fifth escape from arrest: it was aurelianada, meaning an escape carried out in a hairbreadth, spine-tingling manner...
...Aureliano himself had had enough of aurelianadas for the moment; four days later he turned up at the Uruguayan embassy in the nearby suburb of Miramar and asked for asylum. Although it was the second time he had done this (the first was in 1952), Batista ordered that he be granted safe-conduct from the country...