Word: extremadura
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...García and Sanjuan occasionally have to convince their colleagues of the seriousness of their work. "They think we're playing chef," says Martínez. Still, more and more academic scientists are getting used to the idea. In Spain alone, science departments at universities in Zaragoza, Murcia, Extremadura and Granada have all recently started programs to work directly with chefs, and next year, Catalonia's Food and Science Foundation moves to its own campus. "This is not some passing fad," says Capel, referring to the collaboration. "It's about learning to treat ingredients better. And that is what...
Near Badajoz, on the bitter western plateau that the Spaniards named Extremadura because life there was so extremely hard, irrigation has transformed into 5,000 gardens of vegetables and cotton the chalky arid land whose owners were half starved a decade ago. In her new white stucco farmhouse, a wife pauses under a gaudy framed print of Jesus to explain why she has not yet bought a television set: "The neighbors would come in every night and track up my floor...
...Paris, the old-fashioned bonnes are few and far between. Taking their place are hordes of Spaniards, who are streaming across the border with dilapidated luggage in dilapidated buses from Valencia and Alicante, Seville, Extremadura, and the poorer Castilian provinces, lured by wages that are roughly seven times what they are in Spain...
Generalissimo Franco's hour of final triumph seemed near at hand, while for the Spanish Republic the clock struck eleven. The Loyalists' attempt to divert the crushing offensive of superior Rebel equipment by offensives of their own, first in Extremadura, next at Brunete, finally near Toledo, petered out. For the first time, the Rebels refused to be diverted...
...southern Rebel Spain. Long on radiorating ability but short on generalship, General Queipo de Llano was said to have incurred the ire of El Caudillo Franco for not defending his bailiwick better. It seemed likely that El Caudillo would be forced sooner or later to pay some attention to Extremadura, perhaps transfer some badly needed troops from Catalonia...