Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Epitaph. In Bogota, Colombia, the newspaper El Tiempo, deploring the Texas City disaster, editorialized: "Texas, an important city of the U.S., was completely destroyed by a fearful fire. Nothing remains of Texas, the cradle of all the cowboys of the screen...
...sunny, warm weather in the capital was a big help. Washingtonians, habitually cool toward visiting bigwigs, turned out half a million strong to greet El Presidente as he rode from the airport to the White House in Harry Truman's big Lincoln. The State Department had seen to it not only that Government workers were dismissed early for the occasion, but that Constitution and Pennsylvania Avenues were well hung with Mexican flags and Bienvenido, Don Miguel signs. Bands were everywhere...
...servant put a big glass of orange juice in his groping fingers. The President propped himself up in bed, and looked around. Senate President Carlos Serrano, his close friend and political G2, was already there. So was potbellied General Antonio Grijales, chief of Mexico City's police. El Presidents downed the orange juice, swung out of bed, and touched his toes ten times without bending his knees, while he listened to the two men talk...
Their hero, the late El Chivas (by legend a university student who, disappointed in love, took to drink) made a living by merely staring soulfully at the sky, holding out his hand, never saying a word...
Recession in Jail. New Mexico State penitentiary monthly El Boletin reported that sales of prison-made goods have dropped so much that inmates may have to depend on outside sources for their spending money...