Word: hidalgo
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...Striding purposefully from board to board, Spassky occasionally paused to survey troublesome tactical positions. There were few. One by one, the opponents tipped over their kings to acknowledge surrender. "It's like Off-Track Betting," said Charles Hidalgo, one of the victims. "There are few smiling faces when people leave OTB, and there are going to be even fewer smiling faces leaving here. There will be, maybe...
...young person look, in the case of Mexico, at Hidalgo, at Juarez, at Zapata, at Villa, or at Lazaro Cardenas? How not to understand that these men were also young but that they made of their lives a constant and permanent struggle...
Contrary to popular belief, money does grow on trees. At least it does in Hidalgo County in the southern tip of Texas. It takes the form of oranges, all ripe and now starting to rot. The reason, according to Mike Wallace, a regional manager of Texas Citrus Mutual, is that the pickers "are lined up over at the post office waiting for Uncle Sam to feed them." Since December, the area's post offices have been issuing food stamps. The growers claim that the program has undermined the desire to work. The food-stamp officials deny this, explaining that...
...attention in 1967 when its head, Reies Lopez Tijerina, led a raid on a county courthouse in which a jailer and a state policeman were shot. Recently, the Alianza has been seeking to form an independent state based on land grants allegedly guaranteed by the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, and the contribution infuriated New Mexican Episcopalians. Bishop C.J. Kinsolving III of Albuquerque led his diocese in an act of retaliation, cutting the annual pledge to the national Episcopal budget from...
...ruled with only token opposition since it was formed in 1929. Nonetheless, Echeverría, 48, conducted a remarkably strenuous campaign. In the last eight months he visited 900 towns and villages and traveled more than 35,000 miles, most of them in his campaign bus, the Miguel Hidalgo, which he named for the father of Mexican independence. Asked why he was working so hard to win an election that he was extremely unlikely to lose, Echeverría replied: "The campaign has given me a detailed panorama of what is happening in the country...