Word: del
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...institutions, in short, are more suited to the world of 1892, the year Franco was born in the Galician seaport of El Ferrol (now El Ferrol del Caudillo), the son of a navy paymaster. Francisco hoped to become a naval officer but he could not; one version is that he was too short (5 ft. 3 in.), another is that when he came of age the Navy was too poor and too battered by the '98 war with the U.S. to accept new officer-candidates. Franco, in any case, entered the army instead. He forsook wine, women, friendships...
...scarcely enough new housing to shelter even a fraction of them. Tourists too have paid part of the price of Spain's new prosperity. Stretches of the sunny coastlines are now so grotesquely overbuilt that they have become little more than ugly concrete jungles; the famed Costa del Sol is referred to sarcastically as "Miami Beach East...
Dowling didn't disappoint them, in 1949, he directed Yale to an 8-1 recorded and an Ivy tide, Dowling won the Harvard-Yale game with some last-minute heroics tossing a 66-yard pass to tight and Del marting to squeeze by, the Crimson, 24-20, Dowling threw two TD passes that day: the other one came on a 53-yard screen pass to Clvis Hill, now with the Dallas Cowboys...
...Nelson discourages alumni contributors. "Let them give to the philosophy department," he says. Each year Delaware metes out a mere twelve football scholarships-less than half the 25 allowed by N.C.A.A. rules-and draws more than 95% of its players from within a 150-mile radius of its Newark, Del., campus...
...What a pity that Midge Decter, who has obviously discovered the secret of feminine success in a masculine world, chose not to write an upbeat book, but rather to put down her sisters. Ignore her, sisters-she deserves only small change. GRACE L. DAVIS Wilmington, Del...