Word: hidalgos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usual" policies of the mission's chief, blimpish Colonel Burling; he finds an understanding friend in Ernestina Manriquez, neglected wife of a rich landowner. From her he regains the "sense of recklessness, the grandeur of being a man, being male." But it is from his new friend Vicente Hidalgo, a revolutionist gone to seed and now a tosspot clairvoyant, that Harmon regains a larger sense of manhood...
...When Hidalgo is murdered, Harmon issues a statement placing responsibility on the local government, though he knows it will mean instant dismissal from the mission. He remembers Hidalgo's words: "In bullfighting, William, they have a marvelous phrase for describing the climax of the ceremony-that ultimate moment of reality when the sword strikes the bull. 'La hora de verdad-the hour of truth.' A man must not waste away into nothing, William; a man must find his hour of truth." Having faced his hour, Harmon now feels that he can return to his family and find...
...paneled office of Manhattan's J. P. Morgan & Co. Inc. last week trooped a bunch of happy Texans. There they put the final seal on the biggest private deal in the history of natural gas: the financing of a new $193 million pipeline to pump gas from Hidalgo County, on the Rio Grande, to Manhattan's 132nd Street...
...against the anticlerical ideas of the Mexican revolution. But their tactics have changed. The little clique of lawyers who run the movement has begun to translate its strength into political power. Whether this is due to the new party's energetic young president, Schoolmaster Seferino Sánchez Hidalgo, or to two key leaders, Enrique Marfin and Hidalgo Gonzalez (now conferring with Falangist chiefs in Spain), is not clear...
Honey is a tiny village in the pine forests that cover the high sierra between Hidalgo and Puebla. Last spring there was peace in Honey. Visitors found none of the tight sullenness sometimes evident in villages around Mexico City. The people were relaxed, easygoing, contented...