Word: constantino
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spring, Fisherman Candido Solana Hoz listened to the radio while he scanned the seas with practiced eye. Of all the captains sailing out of the little Basque village of Santona, Candido was the ablest. For 50 years he had followed the sea, and with his three husky sons Ricardo, Constantino and Manuel for a crew, he seldom failed to bring the Flower back with a fine catch. As the storm whipped the seas around him, however, Candido put aside all thoughts of the catch. "We will make for home," he told his sons...
...helplessly drifting Flower was only a few hundred yards from the harbor when Candido called to his sons, "Try to swim it, boys. Leave me here. I'm all right." But before the boys could reply, he slipped and fell to the deck. Without a word, Ricardo, Constantino and Manuel went to work. They seized fishing nets bordered with cork buoys and tied them securely around their father. A moment later a huge wave broke over them. On shore, the praying watchers-gave a cry, and the village priest made a sign of the Cross. Neither the Flower...
Charm School. In Paterson, N.J., filing a suit for separate maintenance, Mrs. Frances Constantino complained that her husband Michael, attempting to make her lose 55 lbs., had rationed her food, made her swim until she was exhausted, insisted that she take a five-mile hike every day for a month...
...problem: the original muralists, Constantino Brumidi and Filippo Costaggini, had used up 274 ft. of the available 300 in getting from Columbus to the Gold Rush (among the scenes generously laid out in their panels: Pocahontas saving the life of Captain John Smith, William Penn's treaty with the Indians, the death of Tecumseh). That left 26 ft. for everything since. Cox's solution will be three brief scenes bringing the U.S. up to the age of flight: 1) Union and Confederate soldiers shaking hands after the Civil War, 2) the gun crew of a U..S. warship...