Word: ferrol
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When an inspector from the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) tried to walk unannounced into Ferrol G. ("Bill") Barlow's shop in Pocatello, Idaho, almost three years ago, the irritated proprietor refused him entry. Barlow, an electrical and plumbing subcontractor, cited the Bill of Rights, a copy of which hangs on his office wall, and particularly the Fourth Amendment, which prohibits "unreasonable searches" of private property. The inspector, Barlow insisted, needed a search warrant to inspect his place of business. After Barlow ignored a federal judge's order to allow the inspector...
...institutions, in short, are more suited to the world of 1892, the year Franco was born in the Galician seaport of El Ferrol (now El Ferrol del Caudillo), the son of a navy paymaster. Francisco hoped to become a naval officer but he could not; one version is that he was too short (5 ft. 3 in.), another is that when he came of age the Navy was too poor and too battered by the '98 war with the U.S. to accept new officer-candidates. Franco, in any case, entered the army instead. He forsook wine, women, friendships...