Word: bernal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pick me, Señora?" asked 39-year-old César Bernal Cordovez, a mechanic in the printing plant of El Siglo. The woman insisted that he had appeared in Gaitán's office shortly before the shooting, and had given his name as Roa Sierra (the real Roa had been waiting downstairs to ambush Gait...
When other witnesses were just as positive in identifying him, detectives triumphantly packed him off for questioning. About all the police knew was that, like Roa, Bernal was a mystic given to double-talk about such things as "thought-transference wheels." They still had to prove that he even knew Roa or that he had any connection with the death of Gaitán. Next step would be a psychiatric examination...
Barter. In San Jose, Calif., Annie Bernal was awarded a divorce and what was left of the Bernal house when she testified that her husband had sold the doorbell, the windows, the kitchen stove, the lighting fixtures and the plasterboard walls to buy wine...
...London Times called Geoffrey Nathaniel Pyke "one of the most original if unrecognized figures of the present century." London University Physicist J. D. Bernal said he was "one of the greatest . . . geniuses of his time." What made Pyke so extraordinary was his consistent belief that a human being could reason his way through any problem. That belief rammed Geoffrey Pyke's bald head into-and sometimes through-one stone wall after another...
Your article . . . reminded me of something Alex Bernal said when, as an eight-year-old neighbor, he helped pick the fruit in our yard. Forbidden to climb the trees, Alex had been struggling for hours with a long-handled rake .to get three persimmons hanging out of reach. Finally he said, "Mrs. Mackey, why couldn't you climb this tree...