Word: gabriel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cars pushed over the San Gabriel Mountains and into the Mojave Desert. They plunged into the 90° heat of Death Valley (some drivers sweltered with the windows up lest they cut down their streamlining), spiraled up again into Las Vegas for the night. Next day, a seven-hour drive sent them rolling across Hoover Dam, and then steadily uphill into below-freezing temperatures and snow at the finish line near the Grand Canyon...
...demonstrations, no mass picketing, no bloody clashes with police. But by last week, some 100,000 determined participants in inflation-ridden Chile's first "chain strike" had succeeded in scuttling a government bill ostensibly aimed at freezing wages and prices. They had also forced the resignation of President Gabriel González Videla's 1½-year-old "National Concentration" cabinet...
...Longfellow described some of the horror in Evangeline, but his heroine could not possibly have found her dying Gabriel in Philadelphia's Almshouse, as the poem has it. Fever victims were not admitted...