Word: hacienda
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Three years ago, jauntily riding home from a successful business trip, Seņor Fimbres found his hacienda ransacked, his wife lying horribly mutilated on her bed. "Apaches . . . Apaches . . ." she whispered before she died. "They took our son. Swear to get him back! Avenge...
Cheered by the news of an approaching settlement of Mexico's religious problem. General Goroztieta had summoned his followers to the Hacienda Ibarra, had advised them to disband. Later he heard mass and joined the irreconcilable remnant of his army...
...valley of the Sacramento. Herds of pedigree cattle browsed its meadows. Orchards bowed with tons of fruit. Gardens of European truck spread for acres, efficiently irrigated. The cavalcade passed through many a village of Sutter's clean Kanaks slaves. Flowers smothered the walls of the master's hacienda where a feast waited-salmon trout, venison, bear's paws, crocodile pears-served on Spanish plate by girls from the Sandwich Isles while a Hawaiian orchestra played the "Marseillaise," the "Berne March...
...galvanized the indignation of even callous newspapermen with news of an atrocity. Five Catholic priests, declared Archbishop Ruiz, had been seized in the state of Michoacan by troops under command of General Mange. The priests were charged with inciting the populace to riot, were marched without trial to the Hacienda La Gua Yaba, were lined up against a stone wall and shot down by a firing squad...
...Rosalie Evans was engaged in a long fight with the Mexican Government which had tried to expropriate her hacienda, transformed by her late husband and herself from a barren wilderness into "one of the beauty spots of agricultural Mexico...