Word: bols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...night before Venezuela's President Rómulo Betancourt was to dedicate a new archbishop's palace in Ciudad Bolívar, 275 miles southeast of Caracas, two men were caught planting a time bomb behind a wall near the speakers' platform. Who were they? Members of the Communist Party, and allies of Cuba's Fidel Castro. His patience stretched to the breaking point, Betancourt at first ordered the arrest of every one of the country's estimated 40,000 Communists, Castroites and far-leftists, but later amended the order to cover only "activists...
...Riviera. Born in St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), she started scantily in a quickly banned version of Salome, rapidly went on to score in a variety of roles that highlighted her somnolent beauty and miming talents, rather than dancing skill, led her own companies in performing works commissioned from Ravel (Boléro), Debussy Stravinsky. She died in seclusion in the hillside village that had been her home for two decades...
From his father, Paul inherited Roman citizenship, the most potent status sym bol of those days, but he was also raised as a strict Pharisee, a member of the intellectual and spiritual elite of Judaism...