Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...agency for Lexington motor cars (he still prides himself that he can take down an engine), but that flopped. He taught boxing, refereed at football matches. In León he was a meter reader. Then, briefly, he got a city job, inspecting privies. It got him the nickname el mariscal, because the long flashlight he carried looked like a marshal's baton...
Married. Emir Abdul Illah, 35, dapper, Anglophile regent and heir apparent to the throne of Iraq; and Fayza el Traboulsi, 22, daughter of a well-heeled Egyptian army officer; he for the second time, she for the first; in Bagdad...
Over the River. For three days, U.S. officials thrashed about feebly, arrested some 400 Mexicans. Then Grover C. Wilmoth, district immigration director at El Paso, opened the border. His agents hastily registered the braceros at the river bank or on the roads, and waved them along to the waiting farm trucks. Technically they had all been arrested, and paroled to work. The fanners were happy, the braceros were happy; Juárez, if not happy, was mightily relieved...
...probably the best-known star in the world. In various foreign countries, he is known as Comondogo Mickey, el Raton Miguelito, Miguel Pericote, Topolino, Michel Souris, Miki Kuchi, Mikki Maus, Musse Pigg, Mickey Maus, Mickey Hiireke, Kiki Mavz'a, Mikkel Mus, Mickely...
...battle of El Alamein, an Italian army officer named Giuseppe Berto was captured. He spent three years in a Texas prison camp. When he returned to Italy at the war's end, he found a publisher willing to take a chance on the rough first novel he had written behind the wire. Unexpectedly it became a bestseller in a country where few can afford to buy books...