Word: concepci
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...None Other ..." Soon afterward, a poor worker, José Trigo Villar, and his wife Concepción came to the home to adopt a child. They chose blue-eyed, blonde-curled Maria. "You are taking away a real marquesita" said one of the nurses at the home. José Trigo remembered the remark often during the next quarter-century when, hounded by poverty and civil war, he tramped up & down Spain in search of a living...
...when Carmen was working in a foundry in Valencia, she got an offer of marriage. Her suitor was only a factory hand, stubby and stolid, but husbands were not found under every orange tree, so Carmen said yes. The night before the banns were posted, Jose and Concepción told her what they knew about her birth. They repeated the nun's remark about her being "a real marquesita" and the young bride began to embellish her grey life with daydreams about a romantic past...
Just as the harvest season was getting under way last month, Guatemala's cocky Communist union bosses saw a chance to exploit the situation, though it meant hitting at the government. They called a strike on the government's most valuable farm, 11,000-acre Finca La Concepción, threatened walkouts on other federal farms. Last week, the government finally agreed to pay the demanded 80?-a-day minimum wage on Concepción and a few other farms. On most of the government's 126 farms, wages will remain the lowest in the country...
...asked the President's moral support for the bill now in Congress to postpone for two more years the imposition of a 2?-a-lb. import tax on foreign copper. He also invited President Truman to visit Chile next November when the country opens its $88 million Concepción steel plant, built with...
...Lohman, a Paraguayan who used to cook at a Concepción hotel, runs the Red Wells ranch house, has become adept at buckwheat cakes, fried chicken and hot biscuits. Of Lohman's nine children, only 3½-year-old Juancito is still at Red Wells...