Word: domingo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...inscription on a hospital. Hundreds of towns, streets, buildings have been renamed after Trujillo, his father, his mother, and his patron saint, Rafael. In an unequalled burst of impudence, he renamed the oldest city in the New World (founded by Bartholomeo Columbus, brother of Christopher, in 1496): Ciudad Santo Domingo became Ciudad Trujillo...
...rigid internal censorship, Bogota's famed Liberal daily, El Tiempo, keeps a guarded silence about political developments at home. But when considering the affairs of her hemisphere neighbors, El Tiempo aims and fires at will. Last week El Tiempo drew a bead on Argentina's President Juan Domingo Perón, whose followers recently celebrated Loyalty Day (TIME, Oct. 30), known also to thousands of Argentines as "Saint Perón's Day." Said El Tiempo...
...model of decorum, but there is evidence that in his youth he was something of a gay blade. On weekends he used to ride at breakneck speed into the town of San Pedro de Macoris on a noisy, dust-spurting motorcycle, seriously disturbing a Marine captain attached to Santo Domingo's Guardia Nacional, who rode into town at the same time on a mule named Josephine. The mule-rider, Gregon Williams, is now chief of staff of the 1st Marine Division and he and Craig are close friends...
...president of the Seville Royal Academy of Belles Lettres announced that he had "historical proof" that bones newly discovered in a Carthusian monastery were those of Christopher Columbus. The announcement was received with cold disbelief by the custodians of Columbus' white marble mausoleum in Ciudad Trujillo, Santo Domingo, which claims to have the remains of the discoverer...
...Domingo Massolo had so successfully carried out the public half of his double life, as army officer and Roman Catholic priest, that he had risen to be secretary of the army's Vicar General, was in that job when he surrendered himself...