Word: fors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After receiving this slap, the Strong Man ordered his stooge President Dr. Federico Laredo Bru to dissolve the Cuban falange, an offshoot of Spanish Fascism, and legalize the Cuban Communist Party, which soon boasted 25,000 dues-paying members. Strong Man Batista's subsequent spectacular State visits in Washington...
"Some idle women made an effort to assemble amazing 'war costumes' that betrayed their vague nostalgia for an officer's uniform. Raincoats closed with slide fasteners made a startling appearance in the restaurants of the moment, as well as the most tailored jackets you have ever seen...
"In the same restaurants, seated at secluded tables, there were other, less martial women. Women dressed for peacetime, who opened their shining eyes as large as possible, so that the tears would not gush out. . . .
"War inflicts on men a total risk, the abandonment of all the gentle things of life. Men support, needless to say, the heaviest and most terrible part of the sacrifice. Nevertheless, I cannot keep myself from pitying the women who want to be brave, but who do not know how...
Unchallenged were six seats won by the Communists, seating this party for the first time in a Cuban Constituent Assembly. Neutral observers in Havana agreed that Colonel Batista had gained in moral stature last week by giving Cuba one of the few fairly conducted elections it has ever had. That...