Word: franco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...expecting, came down to Buenos Aires for a routine check-up by slender, capable Midwife Ana Delfino. Her personal calculations allowed her 20 days, but the midwife knew better, put her to bed at once in her own house. At 9 a.m. on July 15, 1943, little Franco arrived, followed at 20-minute intervals by María Fernanda, Carlos Alberto, and María Ester. María Cristina, the last and smallest, appeared an hour later. Each baby weighed about one kilogram...
...side were party politicians, exiles in Montevideo, important bodies of troops both in Buenos Aires and the provinces. The Navy steamed into the harbor. Communists, Socialists, Radicals were eager to pour their multitudes into the streets. Even the Catholic Church, which has favored authoritarianism on the clerical Franco model, was turning against the militarists. Several high clerics, many humble priests were warning good Catholics to shun them...
...substantial diplomatic victory over Spain. The State Department has wrested from fat Francisco Franco everything it had asked...
...west are Spanish Morocco, the Strait of Gibraltar, the sullen, hungry, heartsick land of Spain, where the corpulent Caudillo Franco balances sympathy against expediency, and ponders how he can best save his moth-eaten skin...
...Organization of a Permanent World League of Cooperating Sovereign Nations Dedicated to the Preservation of International Peace, Prosperity and Happiness. Churchill was furious because the name wasn't in Basic English, but he turned up just the same. So did Badoglio, Umberto, Pétain, Giraud and Franco. Seven newspaper and radio men were allowed to cover the conference-from a launch alongside the battleship...