Word: emilio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...size diagrams of the Soviet state organization. With the classics of Communism before them (as well as Cominform publications and books from Moscow), the young priests gather around a big table to discuss, with dialectical zeal, the fine points of Marxism. Explains their instructor, former philosophy professor Canon Don Emilio Benavent...
...Antonio, Emilio Landeros, 6, riding home from school on a bus, started printing a letter: "Dear Santa, I have been good. I want a ..." But the bus had reached his corner. He scurried off, ran around the front of the bus, was struck down by a truck and killed...
...Emilio had decided that it was time to leave the circus and settle down. Colombia was the place he had picked. It was at Girardot on the Magdalena River that "Nero," the troupe's mangy, "dangerous" lion had turned out to be a lioness and given birth to three cubs. And it was at Medellin that Emilio's niece had died of typhoid; the show had gone on, even on her funeral day. With the money Emilio's wife had put away, they would buy a house in Bogotá and become solid citizens...
After a last performance in Cuba, Emilio put the circus aboard the ancient, 145-foot Honduran ship Euzkera, then took a plane to Cartagena to see to Colombian bookings and the house in Bogotá. The Euzkera had only two cabins. But the 46 members of the troupe managed somehow, even with all their animals and gear...
...week's end Emilio finally learned the full bitterness of his loss. Down with the Euzkera had gone all the animals and circus equipment (uninsured), and 37 members of the troupe. Among the missing: Emilio's wife, children and niece. Sobbed Emilio Razzore: "The sea has swallowed up my whole life...