Word: casas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Madrid. What the nun told the mother superior, in a combination of French and halting Spanish, was almost equally surprising: she had come from Aix-en-Provence to establish the first house of her order, the Little Sisters of Jesus, in Spain. She asked the mother superior of the Casa de la Virgen for hospitality until she could find a place to live...
...Bomba, Sister Marie Aline and Sister Dominique knew they had found their new home. That night the nuns of the Casa de la Virgen prayed long for the two sisters out in the dangerous dark. And that night, by the light of a big bonfire, the neighbors of La Bomba labored with the sisters to build their house...
...cabinet decided only to postpone action until Perón could appeal to the people once more. He was to get a chance this week; Vuletich ordered a four-hour token general strike during which labor was to hold a mass meeting in front of the Casa Rosada (Argentina's White House). Perón and everyone else knew that the workers would be thinking, "This had better be good." Whether he could still work his oldtime magic over the capital crowds remained to be seen; he had never needed it more...
...Evita's Social Aid Foundation and her Women's Party (whose presidency he also assumed last week), Perón has been working harder than ever now that he is alone on the job. Each morning he arrives punctually at 6:25 at the door of the Casa Rosada and gives the captain of the guard a hearty handshake before entering the building. By 6:30 he is busy signing papers. Since his wife's death, he has made no public statement, attended no public function...
Logs & Diaries. Today, at 84, she knows as much about the Archives as anyone alive. Week after week, supported by her ebony cane, she still makes her way from the Hotel Cristina to the hushed chambers of the Casa de la Lonja. There, head bent low, she still pores over the endless viceroys' reports, ships' logs and diaries. But in all the decades she has been in Seville, her chief target has never changed: today, she is the world's leading expert on Columbus' crew...