Word: crespo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cracking. In Havana 30 new British medium tanks and cases of Italian machine guns were unloaded and hustled off to Camp Columbia. From time to time there were tales of dissatisfaction and defection among both high-and low-ranking Cuban army officers. One young air force pilot, Jose Crespo, flew his B-26 to exile in Miami last week, saying that he could not obey orders to "bomb cities and kill innocent women and children." But there were other pilots, willing to use bombs. So long as the big army garrisons remain loyal, the Batista regime still stands...
October 26, 1936: Santiago Igleslas, Puerto Rican Resident Commissioner, shot and wounded by Domingo Crespo, Nationalist party member...
...Argentina in 1939 when the German pocket battleship Graf Spee was scuttled after the Battle of the Rio de la Plata. Among the other big moneymakers were fruit hucksters, waiters and farmers, who were soon buying Cadillacs, Buicks and beach property. Known only by nicknames such as El Crespo (Curly) El Vasquito (Little Basque), or Juancito (Johnny), each gang member had his own assigned wheel which he had studied thoroughly. The management routine of shuffling wheels apparently failed because the gamblers knew the wheels so well they could identify them by the tiniest mar or scratch, the faintest off-shade...