Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Moroccan puppet, the Nazis were busy buttering up 63-year-old Moulay Abdelazis, ousted by the French in 1908, with promises of the Sultanate of a United Morocco that would include Tangier as well as French and Spanish Morocco. Germans in Tangier feted his nephew, Moulay-El-Hassan, the Caliph of Spanish Morocco. Backing up the Nazis was the potent ultra-nationalist Watan party, who want a unified Morocco...
This short, slight man with the slightly scraggly grey hair has more in common with the late Calvin Coolidge than the fact that he came to power by accident. He has a sardonic sense of humor, a deliberate manner and enormous practical shrewdness, which has earned him the nickname El Zorro (The Fox). He has no hobbies, takes no exercise; his family life consists of daily visits to his daughter Delia's house, where he plays with his grandchildren (see cut, p. 40). A hard, patient worker, in the ten months he has been Acting President he has worked...
This year's Kentucky Derby will be run at Churchill Downs this Saturday. Each year, in the past three years, there has been an outstanding winter-book favorite: in 1938, Stagehand; in 1939, El Chico; last year, Bimelech. But this year there has been no Big Horse...
...British-Iraqi Treaty such an action is perfectly permissible "in the event of the imminent threat of war," and Premier El-Gailani, who had officially come out for the treaty (perhaps without thinking the British could spare the troops), knew it. Best move he could think of was to send a pro-British staff officer hastily to welcome the British commander...
Back in his native Spain, Souto found his best inspiration in the old Spanish masters Goya, El Greco, Velásquez. In 1934 the Spanish Republican Government gave him a Prix de Rome, which lasted him until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. A Loyalist who had a brother in Franco's ranks, Souto didn't enjoy the war much. Two months before it was over he left for Paris and Brussels, drifted later to the U.S. Exiled and running low on funds in Manhattan, Souto was lucky enough to get friends to stake him to last...