Word: gran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swoop in 1938, Cárdenas took over 395,000 acres of henequen (fiber) land in Yucatán and turned it into a vast government collective farm. It was the nearest thing to a Soviet-style Sovkhoz (state farm) outside the U.S.S.R. Cardenas called it the Gran Ejido to distinguish it from numerous smaller semi-collectives in Mexico's ejidal system...
Since then, the Gran Ejido has been sacrosanct in Mexican politics. No public official dared to say that it was an abysmal failure. Profits from the henequen were raked in by corrupt bureaucrats, while henequen growers and their families lived on barely $1 a week. Mexico's total production, despite a $1.900,000 annual subsidy started by President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines in 1953 (TIME, April 13, 1953), dropped steadily. Last year it hit a low of 450,000 bales, compared with the World War I high of 1,000,000 bales...
...varmints thet lit thet fire hope to hell it'll burn down th' good life in this hore coutnry, 'spite of th' Const'tution, th' Bill o' Rights an' our states' rights an' all sech. My great gran'pappy he'p'd build this country, too. He wuz wounded oiver there on Rev'lutionary Ridge, righ here in Concord, Buried over in Sleepy Holler...
From the operating theater in Madrid's Lourdes Hospital came an urgent cry: "Quick, bring candles!" The power had failed, the lights were out, and a surgeon, halfway through a cancer operation one night last week, was left in total darkness. On Madrid's Gran Via, the Spanish capital's Broadway, neon-lit theaters darkened, shop windows went black. Stumbling through the darkness, Madrileños cursed the latest and worst of a series of major cuts in the city's electricity supply. It was the same throughout most of Spain. A season of parching droughts...
...sweltering evening this week, some 40,000 fans flocked to Havana's Gran Stadium to watch Billy make his second try at deposing the champ with the crown. From the first bell, Gavilan had Graham fighting just the way he wanted him to. When bullish Billy charged in, cat-quick Gavilan feinted him into leading, then countered with jabs as swift as the beat of a hawk's wing; by Round 2, Billy's nose was bloodied...