Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Palestinian digger is bearded Dominican Father Roland de Vaux (described by a colleague as "rather a dandy for a Dominican"). At Tell el-Farah, near Nablus in central Palestine, he found a likely spot, staked out a 40-acre claim. On the surface were iron age remains, rather recent for the Holy Land. Below, the bronze age began. Father de Vaux believes that he may prove his city to be ancient Tirzah, first capital of the secessionist Kingdom of Israel, which Jeroboam split off from Judah after the death of Solomon about...
...Brazil, China, the Dominican Republic, Greece, Poland, Uruguay, Yugoslavia. France also asked delay for French Indo-China, and The Netherlands for the Netherlands Indies...
...Brunnell, Fla., Dominican President Rafael Trujillo's adopted nephew, Jose Adrian Trujillo Seijas, was shot dead outside a café by a sheriff's deputy. The sheriff said the cafe people had mistaken Trujillo and a friend for Negroes, and refused to serve them; a disturbance followed, and the deputy fired in selfdefense...
...Thin, big-eyed Carol Jackson, 35, was born in Oshkosh, Wis., the daughter of a corporation lawyer. She majored in philosophy at Wellesley, traveled around the world, free-lanced, was converted to Catholicism in 1941. But when Ed Willock ind Carol Jackson met last spring, as contributors to the Dominican magazine, the Torch, they found they had a lot in common...
...mark of the new friendship, Havana's Communist Hoy lashed out at democratic Dominican exiles as "reactionary adventurers." Said one such adventurer, who remembered previous pacts between Stalinists and Latin American dictators: "First Nicaragua, then Brazil and now Dominica. Lombardo Toledano and his Communist friends have become the technicians for the salvaging of Latin American tyrannies...