Word: corufia
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Last week Sir Samuel flew to La Corufia with a stern warning for fat Franco. The time had come, Sir Samuel said, for the Caudillo to abandon his pro-Axis nonbelligerency, begin to think and act like a neutral. Sir Samuel added that the U.S. had full knowledge of his visit and message. In Franco's villa at Pazo de Leiras, outside La Corufia, Sir Samuel listed Britain's demands...
...that part of Napoleon's forces under General Soult were isolated in the north of Spain, Sir John Moore, though shy of men & materiel, set out through rugged country to cut Soult off. When Napoleon followed him, with his main Army, Sir John raced for the sea at Corufia. His Spanish allies failed him. French cavalry overtook him and, when his transports were two days late, so did Soult (with 20,000 men and 40 cannon to Sir John's 15,000 men, nine cannon). A cannon ball got brave, reckless Sir John, but not before...
...bull to kill a man with a sword is news almost anywhere, but when it happened last week at Corufia, with the greatest living bullfighter in the ring, Spanish editors stopped the presses...
...Corufia last week the great Belmonte stood with sword poised, feet together, to administer the estocado to a brave bull. Over the wicked horns his curving blade went, to miss by a hair's breadth the two-inch spot between the great shoulder blades. The bull stormed off, the sword waving like a reed from the hump of his back. With a mighty shake the bull tossed the weapon high into the air. It hurtled down, point first, to pierce the breast of one Candido Roig Roura, who at 4 o'clock that afternoon had been standing...
...general strike was proclaimed at Corufia in Spain as a protest against the war in Morocco. All stores were closed, tramways suspended service. To prevent disorders, police and civil guards patrolled the streets...
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