Word: blanco
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...luck of the Widow Concepción Blanco de Herrera hit a hungry low one day last week: she had no money, no food, and seven unfed children crowded with her into a single room. But when she collected $3 owed her for washing clothes, she spent only half for groceries. With the other $1.50 she bought, for the second time in her life, a ticket on the Five-and-Six, Caracas' fabulous betting pool...
Died. Dr. Juan Carlos Blanco, 72, Uruguay's first Ambassador to the U.S. (1941-48), onetime dean of the Washington diplomatic corps; delegate to the League of Nations and United Nations; of a heart ailment; in Montevideo...
...Texas Sportsman Alfred C. Glassell Jr., the world's record for game fish on rod & reel, a 1,025-lb. black marlin boated on 39-thread line, off Cabo Blanco, Peru. (In 1930, near Tahiti, Zane Grey caught a giant striped marlin that weighed 1,040 lbs., but the record was disqualified because sharks had bitten off a chunk-about 300 lbs.-of the tail...
...begged that U.N.'s "moral judgment ... be backed with the power of enforcement ... to expel the invader from our territory." His tense face relaxed a little as, in quick succession, France's Chauvel, Britain's Sir Terence Shone, China's Tsiang, Cuba's Carlos Blanco, Norway's Arne Sunde and Ecuador's Jose Correa supported the U.S. resolution...
...Reliable. In London, Court Commissioner Blanco White decided that professional Knife Thrower Ralph Noakes was not guilty of cruelty when he heaved a storm lantern at his wife, partner in his vaudeville act: "A first-class shot would not have missed her with a storm lantern if he had meant...