Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán fell to the pavement on Bogotá's Carrera Séptima, dead of an assassin's bullets. The death of Liberal Firebrand Gaitán touched off the bloody riots that Colombians now call el bogotanazo. To forestall possible trouble on the April 9 anniversary, Conservative President Mariano Ospina Pérez forbade mass meetings that day. Liberal leaders promptly called the faithful to memorial services on April...
...El Paso (Paramount) is a morally cross-eyed western about a young Eastern lawyer (John Payne) who has trouble telling right from wrong. Payne, just back from the Civil War, arrives in El Paso in search of his sweetheart (Gail Russell) and finds the town in the grip of violence and disorder. Landgrabber Sterling Hayden and his corrupt stooge, Sheriff Dick Foran, have the townspeople terrified. At first Payne tries unsuccessfully to unseat the villains by due process of law. Then he takes to rabble-rousing. Meanwhile, he begins to wonder if the end (civic order) justifies the means (taking...
Troops in armored cars occupied railways, telephone exchanges and border stations. They arrested El Kuwatly in Damascus' military hospital, routed Premier Khalid el-Azm out of bed and carried him off in his blue silk pajamas. By morning most of the cabinet was locked up in Damascus' Citadel, and Syrians got their first look at their new ruler...
...week's end even some of Zaim's followers were wondering what the domestic implications were. For a militant putschist, Zaim was getting off to a slow start. First he tried to get Faris el-Khouri, former Premier and Syria's delegate to the United Nations, to form a cabinet. When El Khouri refused, Zaim dissolved parliament and appointed himself temporary Premier at the head of a cabinet of "technicians." Most Syrians, sipping coffee in the bazaars and smoking their hubble-bubble pipes, took hardly any notice of the change in government. In their 4,000-year...
...months after he broke pelvis, collarbone, ankle and rib in an auto crash, Golfer Ben Hogan was driven to the El Paso railroad station, and wheeled to the train. He managed to walk the length of a Pullman car by himself and settled down for the 16-hour trip back home to Fort Worth...