Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most of his long life (1379-80 to 1471), Thomas prayed and meditated, instructed novices and meticulously copied texts, while outside his Low Countries cloister raged the great upheavals of the time. On his tomb in The Netherlands is carved a Latin inscription: To the honor, not to the memory of Thomas à Kempis, whose name is more enduring than any monument...
...musical will deal with "American tourists, Latin ladies, detectives, and a dictator," the Pudding reports. The locale is Anyguay, South America. It will be the one hundred and first show in Pudding hisotry...
Easily Said. In Paris, 15 Latin American nations under Argentina's leadership prepared a resolution calling for Spain's admission to U.N. This would repeal a resolution the General Assembly passed two years ago, blackballing Franco as an Axis ally and calling on member nations to withdraw their ambassadors from Spain...
George Marshall asked Britain's Ernest Bevin and France's Robert Schuman how they felt about letting Franco into U.N. Both were opposed. Marshall agreed that the U.S. would not support the Latin American move for Spain's U.N. membership. The U.S., however, would back repeal of the 1946 resolution-if someone else proposed it. It would also back Spain for membership in U.N.'s non-political affiliates, such as the International Telecommunications Union...
...find on the same side of our military fence. There are other reasons Mr. Gurney fails to mention. Spain is a Catholic country and there will be a large Catholic vote in the coming elections here. Another reason centers on the increasing pressure on behalf of Franco by our Latin American allies...