Word: laga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Quero, 63, how he was feeling, he replied: "These shoes are killing me." With good reason. For the past 30 years Cortés has been shoeless, padding around in carpet slippers in an upstairs room of his house in Mijas, above the seaport of Málaga. His self-imposed imprisonment ended last week when Generalissimo Francisco Franco ordered an amnesty for all survivors of the losing Republican side in the Spanish Civil War of three decades...
...years stretched out in a monotony of sameness, there was always the fear of detection. With his father now dead, Cortés realized that each pack of cigarettes, each shirt his wife bought could give them away. Juliana became a peddler and would go down to Málaga to sell Mijas' hemp products and to buy miscellaneous goods and clothes for resale in Mijas, so that an extra shirt or trousers caused no comment. In fact, when local searches for Cortés failed, the police believed that he was hiding out in Málaga...
...seems strangely unaffected by both the warm abrazos of old friends who had thought him dead, and by the shiny new skyscrapers of Málaga, the neon lights and the blaring sock-it-to-'em jukeboxes. What he likes best of all is to slip off the uncomfortable shoes as he takes the sun in the tiny inner patio prohibited to him for so many years. Sitting there, at peace with himself and the world, Cortés says: "At last, for me, the war is over...
...former Madrid newspaperman who did not become a priest until he was 53, Herrera was among the few Spanish churchmen to speak out publicly against corruption and injustice under Franco, steadfastly campaigned for greater freedom and better living conditions for his countrymen. Within his own bishopric of Málaga, he fought illiteracy with the construction of some 250 new elementary schools in the last 20 years...
...Europe. Two years ago, Marbella was a bleached fishing hamlet between Málaga and Gibraltar; it now has three luxury hotels, a golf club, two cinemas, scores of bars and a burgeoning skyline of glassy apartment buildings. In nearby Torremolinos, there is standing room only on the beach on many a hot August noon. The bullfight season, which for a century ended in October, now unofficially extends throughout the year on the mild south coast, and in any season, in any city, there are likely to be as many tourists as Spaniards shouting...