Word: jacinto
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...November 1861, when the U. S. Civil War was just getting going. Captain Charles Wilkes of the Union Navy, commanding the screw sloop San Jacinto, fired a shot across the bows of the British Royal Mail packet Trent as she steamed along the Bahama Channel. The Trent hove to and, under the San Jacinto's guns, surrendered to a U. S. boarding party the persons of James Murray Mason and John Slidell, commissioners on their way to represent the Confederacy in Great Britain and France, respectively...
...toughest tunnel, under the San Jacinto mountains, the engineers ran into inflows of ground water up to 15,800 gallons per minute. According to the superintendent on this job, "water pressures as high as 600 lb. per sq. in. caved in headings or brought down the arch; water had to be pumped out against an 800-ft. head through a shaft that was flooded repeatedly while the work was under contract. . . . Repeated relocation of portions of the tunnel were necessary." When the engineers finally holed through San Jacinto tunnel, they were calling it, with commingled irritation and pride...
...seven years hard-hitting dictator of the Dominican Republic, announced he was retiring to "private life," that he would not be a candidate for reelection. That Dictator Trujillo was not going to be any less a dictator in "private life," however, was evident when he nominated loyal Henchman Dr. Jacinto B. Peynado as his successor. Just where Boss Trujillo stands in his henchman's estimation is evident from the neon sign which glitters on the front of Peynado's home. It reads: GOD AND TRUJILLO. Says President-elect Peynado: "It will remain there as long as I live...
...Francisco, reported their position occasionally but not regularly. They were advised to swing east because of thick weather but kept on toward California. They almost reached Mexico, turned back north. For four hours no one knew where they were. Finally they found a hole in the fog near San Jacinto, landed skilfully in a cow pasture, handed out cards bearing the words "Eat," "Bath," "Sleep." The Soviet consul arrived, jabbered in hearty Russian to the flyers while they splashed in a shower at March Field. They telephoned the Soviet Embassy in Washington, cabled proudly to Moscow, wolfed a breakfast...
...attempt to froth a happy ending over Ramona's widow-weeds is not a major flaw. The picture is so pictorially arresting it might almost do without a story. Dark cottonwoods and yellow wheat, the greens and reds and rolling con-tours of the San Jacinto mountains where it was filmed, spread themselves out for the technicolor camera like a war-chief's blanket. Historically accurate since there has been little change in the landscape since 1870, Ramona pours its eye-filling opulence through many frames: Ramona's wedding breakfast, the horse race at the Fiesta, Alesandro...