Word: gij
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gijón's main plaza, the band followed the national anthem with a new Hymn to Fleming. Then Lady Fleming unveiled a bust of the man Spaniards call El Buen Sabio (The Good Wizard...
...Spanish Biscayan port of Gijón (pop. 110,000) was decked out in its fiesta best last week. Even its waterfront slums were bravely decorated with fish nets, crossed oars and ships' wheels laced with flowers. As the guest of honor, a smiling widow from Britain, entered a mean little square, she looked into the eyes of a blown-up photograph of her husband bearing the inscription: "To the Holy Virgin we pray: for us, many sardines; for the wizard who gave us penicillin, glory...
...Lady Fleming strode through Gijón's crowd last week, an old woman ran forward and spread two hand-worked silk shawls on the ground for her to walk...
That same day, 400 miles away, the 200 village families of Navajas near Valencia dedicated a plaque reading: "To Fleming as a sign of gratitude." By week's end Barcelona, Spain's most bustling city (pop. 1,087,099) unveiled a marble bust, and the Gijón scene was repeated. Madrid soon will have its monument; Manzanares already has its Calle Fleming...