Word: gil
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of Washington wondered why Harriman got the job-he had served competently but not brilliantly in Moscow, had come home saying he wanted to stay there. As for quiet Gil Winant-the nation seemed to remember him best as the man who looked like Lincoln...
...Church has no love for the Falange, its rival in education and ideology. It still goes along with Franco but would prefer Gil Robles, an anti-Franco exile in Lisbon, or some other conservative, if a change could be achieved without bloodshed. Two weeks ago Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, who, as bishop of Salamanca, had helped Franco mightily during the civil war, explained his present position toward the Spanish regime. "During Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, I proclaimed that the Church is above politics. I repeated it during the Republic. I said it again for the first time...
...Government was consulting with the Communists, led by Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria) of Civil War fame. It was in contact with the chief Spanish underground, of unassessable political strength, known as the National Alliance of Democratic Forces. But it considered Rightists like Gil Robles as "renegade republicans." It sneered at the monarchists-"a cabal of old women made up almost entirely of political whores and political virgins." Spanish disunity was as tragically great as ever...
...Marine Howard ("Red") Maley helped get Southern Methodist's oldtime aerial circus going again with a 51-0 whitewashing of outclassed Backland A.A.F. The other favorite in the Southwest, Texas, had a threatening mixture of big & little stars - 137-lb. Breakaway-Back Byron Gil-lory and mountainous Tackles (combined weight 525 Ibs.) Harland Wetz and Jim Plyler...
...colored toothpaste, eat three times as many candy bars as their parents, heed Lifebuoy's "B.O." slogan oftener than Ivory's "It Floats." This and other sales-stimulating information is the merchandise they buy from Chicago's newest pollster: pollster" jive-jumping Eugene Gilbert, president of Gil-Bert Teen Age Services...