Word: feria
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Fidel Castro's Armed Forces Ministry one day last week came a high-pitched communiqué. An invasion force, said the ministry, landed on the north shore of Oriente province and was engaged by the militia. In the fight Invasion Leader Armentino Feria, described as a follower of Batista Gangster Rolando Masferrer, was killed. Captured, according to the communiqué, were two of his men, plus a U.S. flag, a U.S. Army manual, a U.S. Army uniform, seven U.S. carbines and three muleloads of ammunition. The remaining invaders, totaling 24 men, escaped to the hills. Inevitably the ministry...
...British contingent is headed by Mrs. Tighe Nickalls, known familiarly as Tiger, a ten-year veteran of traipsing from feria to feria; Colonel Christopher Beckett, who started in the prewar days of Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon, and thinks the art has declined since Manolete's time because now "the matadors want to live until tomorrow"; and Nora McAlpine, owner of London's Dorchester Hotel, who this year brought her 16-year-old daughter to the fights...