Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hurt; 500,000 head shipped over the border each year make a big difference in northern Mexico's prosperity. Last week, while the U.S. Congress shoved through bills for veterinary help in stamping out Mexico's aftosa, Mexicans awaited the man who would have to take action. El Universal ran a cartoon of the President arriving in his "Sacred Cow"-"one cow that is not afraid to move around these days...
...Nobody in Flatbush," smirks your issue [Feb. 3], "blamed Leo and Laraine for flying to Juarez, Mexico, to get her a second divorce with no strings attached, or for driving back to El Paso to be married." In other words, the Hollywood, irresponsible, matrimonial philosophy is sanctioned blithely in Flatbush...
...el-Krim, bearded, limping Riff chief who nearly drove the Spaniards out of Morocco in the '20s (before France's Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, put in charge of combined Spanish and French forces, went down and whipped him), finally got the answer he wanted to a letter he has been sending to Paris every year. He could now get off Reunion Island, a muggy spot in the Indian Ocean to which he had been exiled (with two favorite wives and many relatives) back in 1926. Abd el-Krim decided to move to the French Riviera...
...along the Atlantic coast, two separate Royal Navy task forces, carrying both U.S. and British troops, struck from the Mediterranean against Oran and Algiers. Ultimate success depended not only on the luck and timing of all three strikes, but upon what happened when Montgomery suddenly turned on Rommel at El Alamein. Montgomery needed tanks before he could turn. Stripping its own armored divisions, the U.S. had sent him 400 General Shermans, with all the engines stowed aboard one ship. That one ship was singled out by a U-boat and sunk soon after clearing port. Another ship was frantically loaded...
Paced by Dick Porter and Royal El-fast, both Freshmen, the squad defeated one of the top-ranking of the 12 teams comprising the New England College Rifle League. In picking off its seventh win as against two setbacks, the Varsity moved up from fifth to second place is the League. Dave Knight and Bill Dunn, round out the quintet...