Word: doleful
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...Franco era. In 1969, upset by a constitutional amendment that added the referendum requirement, the Spanish strongman closed the border. The move, unreversed until 1985, hurt both sides, splitting families with branches in Spain and Gibraltar and putting hundreds of Spaniards, who had worked on the Rock, on the dole. Franco's strategy "put back our cause by decades," says a senior Spanish diplomat. "All it did was create a siege mentality and bring them closer together instead of closer to Spain." An E.U. aid offer, worth €60 million to Gibraltar - which gets no subsidies from Britain - and nearby...
...heaven. Today it's the church that is handing out money in hopes of buying forgiveness for itself. The surging scandal over sexual abuse by the priesthood is proving as financially damaging to the church as it is hurtful to the faith, as Catholic dioceses across the country dole out huge sums to victims to compensate them for their pain and keep them silent...
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