Word: cordoba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...peasant, he was born in Cordoba, the Moorish city in southern Spain, and picked it for his matador's name. At 15 he entered village amateur events, determined, as he recalls it, to do or die for his widowed mother: "I told her, 'I will dress you in mourning or I will buy you a house.' " In 1960, his first professional season, he killed 72 young bulls-and ragged though he was, won 90 ears, 31 tails, 13 hoofs for his heart-stopping brushes with death. The next year he fought 109 bulls and was the idol...
University autonomy is by no means a phenomenon unique to Venezuela. It is a practice employed to a certain degree throughout Latin America. The history of the idea dates to a student strike and subsequent convention in Cordoba, Argentina, in 1919. Protesting against the ancient and restrictive control of university life by the Church, the Cordoba students staged a noisy walkout against scholastic officialdom. The result was an independent charter for the school. The student congress that took place in Cordoba under the new grant cited the principle of university autonomy as the end of all educational reform...
...Cordoba University in Argentina, rioting students refused to obey the school's administrators and demanded a voice in running things. They asked for relaxed entrance requirements, looser attendance rules, the virtual elimination of tuition. To eliminate narrow-minded professors who preached the dogma of the oligarchs, they also called for review of professorial qualifications...