Word: julio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Julio Cort...
Argentina is a country rich in every thing but stability. The nation has been so cursed by bloody political convulsions that its own best people have pro nounced their homeland incurable. Julio Cortázar's novel, A Manual for Manuel, is one Argentine expatriate's eccentric response to violence in his country (and to some extent Uruguay and Brazil) in the early 1970s. Cortzar, who has lived in Paris for some decades, writes in a surreal fashion. The effects can be dazzling - as in All Fires the Fire and Other Stories of several years ago. Here...
...best player in the world to resign himself to his job as a TV commentator, said miserably during the qualifying round that "Brazil, my beloved Brazil, has only given us reason to cry." He cried too soon, and back in Brazil a despairing construction worker and soccer fan named Julio Gondim poured sleeping pills into a bottle of rum and committed suicide too soon: his team did not drop out of the running until the last day of the elimination...
Quizmaster-Julio Scheft...
...difficult it is unbelievable!" Nonetheless. 1,699 people got applications for loans, and SBA officials anticipated a total of about 3,000 applications for $60 million by their deadline of Sept. 16. Community leaders were confident that at least two-thirds of the stores will reopen. Explained Julio Vazquez, a Spanish Harlem congressional aide: "In most cases, they've invested all they've got. Besides! where else are they gonna...