Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...transports began landing in Costa Rica to take aboard the Legion's khaki-clad recruits. Once again, the airlift was on; again it bypassed Tacho's wall. This time the recruits and gear were headed for an encampment at Poptum, in the remote Guatemalan province of El Peten. Even though the move was no surprise this time, Tacho could do nothing about it: Arevalo's air force was bigger than...
Suddenly Vishinsky noticed that Syria's white-thatched Paris el Khouri had fallen asleep. Said Vishinsky with heavy sarcasm: "I wish the distinguished Syrian delegate the best of health. I beg his pardon for disturbing him. I want him to hear me. I hope he does hear me. I do not know what measures will have to be taken in order to make sure that he will hear me . . ." El Khouri finally woke up. What Vishinsky had wanted him to hear was hardly worth...
...Reno, the President had spoken "to an acre and a half of people." In Los Angeles he had addressed "30,000 people in Gilmore Stadium and they seemed highly interested." He said, further: "The governor of Texas met me [in El Paso] and we went across Texas, and I must have seen a million people in Texas...
Doves & Honey. Working his way back east, Candidate Truman bore down on his theme that the Republican Congress wants to put control of Government-developed power "into the hands of hijackers-so they can stick you with high prices." At El Paso he charged that Republican leaders in Congress had "cut the reclamation program for the West by more than 50%." He continued: "Now, what do you suppose the Republican chairman of the Appropriations Committee [New York's John Taber] thought about your protests? He said, 'The West is squealing like a stuck pig.' That is what...
...knew he had written, working at the dull routine of the Custom House to provide for his family, and emerging in his early middle age ... to take part in a contemporary world he had scarcely known existed." Says Robert Cantwell: "Such a portrait, with its angular shadows, its El Greco distortions . . . is in itself an interesting product of the American imagination ... but I found it less and less like Hawthorne the more I learned...