Word: ernesto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vincenzina and Enzo were in love, and they ran away together. It was then that the question of Vincenzina's honor came up. Six years before, she confessed in tears, when she was 15, there had been Ernesto-Ernesto who was "so handsome that girls ate him with their eyes." But it was all over now, and Ernesto had married. Although Enzo himself was not married to Vincenzina, he was outraged by her confession, took her home to her family. Vincenzina's father was shamed, ordered her out of the house, and draped black cloth over his front...
Decimation. Six days later Castro landed on the southern shore of Oriente province, to be met by Batista's 1st Regiment. Only a dozen rebels escaped the slaughter. Among them were Cuba's future leaders: Fidel and Raul Castro, an Argentine surgeon named Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, a onetime New York dishwasher named Camilo Cienfuegos, a Havana rebel named Faustino Perez...
...army crept from the Sierra Maestra on the southeastern coast to the Sierra del Cristal 100 miles east, then to the foothills, avoiding decisive battle while the muscle grew. Three weeks ago, with rebels holding most of rural Oriente province and total rebel strength up to 8,500, Major Ernesto ("Che") Guevara launched the offensive in Las Villas, 150 miles from Havana...
...Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, 30, is an asthmatic, Argentine-born, Communist-lining surgeon, and the rebels' best field commander. After slipping in and out of Guatemala on mysterious missions during Guatemala's Red-influenced days, Che joined Fidel Castro in Mexico in time for the invasion. He turned the tide of war with his bloody late-December campaign in the central province of Las Villas, which he commanded in spite of a broken...
...project got under way six years ago in the kind of comedy of confusion that all Frenchmen relish. A group of five architects, Les Cinq (France's Le Corbusier, Brazil's Lucio Costa, the U.S.'s Walter Gropius, Sweden's Sven Markelius, Italy's Ernesto Rogers), was picked by UNESCO to name Les Trois who would actually design the building. The site was changed twice to placate the jittery guardians of Paris' celebrated skyline. With that act over, the U.S.'s Marcel Breuer, Italy's famed master of concrete, Pier Luigi Nervi...