Word: cort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next decade, Rivera did what is probably his greatest work: 124 frescoes in the Ministry of Education, a historical mural in the Cortés Palace at Cuernavaca, and his frescoes in the old expropriated chapel that has been part of Mexico's Agricultural School at Chapingo since 1920. Part of the chapel at Chapingo he decorated with an agricultural allegory in which the earth is personified by a series of nudes. They were modeled by Lupe Marin, the tempestuous, olive-skinned beauty who was his second wife...
...latter-day Magellan could still be "the first to burst into that silent sea." No atomic-age Hernando Cortés would pose as a god to a modern Montezuma. Geographically, the world had been pretty well raked over. The only sizable blanks remaining were near the Poles, and they were mostly wastes of ice & snow...
...night and you also act in the cine; when do you find time to do your spying?" Weekending in summery Cuernavaca, Hilda was called on by the town police. Hotel servants had dug out of her luggage suspicious accounts of troop movements: notes from her university course on Cortés' conquest of Mexico...
Died. León Cortés Castro, 63, fascist-minded President of Costa Rica from 1936-40; of a heart attack; in Santa Ana, Costa Rica...
...death in Spain. The Aztecs, who welcome the Spaniards at first, turn on them at last like warrior ants. The retreat of the invaders over the broken causeways out of the city-la noche triste, the climax of Captain from Castile as it is of every book about Cortés' exploits-is the bloody nightmare of Spain in the New World...