Word: geronimo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story Caribe Hilton stood dazzling and white on a peninsula, amid a garden of yellow hibiscus trees, breadfruit, almonds and tall waving palms. On one side of the hotel were the coral beach and the long rolling waves of the Caribbean; on the other, old San Geronimo Castle, a blue bay, pink and white houses and, in the distance, mountains...
...only the oldest newspaper in the West but one of the most politically powerful little dailies (circ. 10,565) in the U.S. In honor of its centennial, the New Mexican published a 124-page edition, in which such long-departed local heroes and villains as Billy the Kid, Geronimo and Archbishop John (Death Comes for the Archbishop) Lamy made posthumous headlines. The New Mexican's tough, fighting Editor Will Harrison suspended his running feud with New Mexico's Governor' Thomas Mabry long enough to print a historical sketch under Mabry's byline...
...only the oldest newspaper in the West but one of the most politically powerful little dailies (circ. 10,565) in the U.S. In honor of its centennial, the New Mexican published a 124-page edition, in which such long-departed local heroes and villains as Billy the Kid, Geronimo and Archbishop John (Death Comes for the Archbishop) Lamy made posthumous headlines. The New Mexican's tough, fighting Editor Will Harrison suspended his running feud with New Mexico's Governor' Thomas Mabry long enough to print a historical sketch under Mabry's byline...
...July 1945, Vail was handed a court order, told to go out to a ranch five miles west of town and get Jesusa Rodriguez' two children. Jesusa had been divorced from Geronimo Rodriguez and was supposed to have the children for the next six months. They were living with Geronimo's old man, Felix...
...Felix had a shotgun in the house; whether or not he pointed it at Sheriff Ennis is still in dispute. Anyway, the sheriff let go with his submachine gun. Felix tottered backward, died in his daughter Victoria's arms. Geronimo's uncles, Domingo and Antonio, came running from the back of the house. Ennis wheeled on the porch, fired another burst. They fell dead, too. Economical Ennis had fired only five shots-two for Felix, two for Dom and one for Tony...