Word: liria
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...SOMALIA, SAYS ANA LIRIA Franch, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees representative in Angola, "the country's strong are eating its weak." In Malanje government employees steal and sell medical supplies intended for the hospital. Bandits have been making off with an estimated third of the U.N.'s food aid as soon as it hits the ports. There is profiteering in the refugee camps by local chiefs appointed as middlemen in the food-distribution chain. "Given the hardships of everyday life here, they don't see anything wrong with what they are doing," says a relief official...
...bands of sardine fishermen and rice workers from Portugal, who traveled almost two weeks by bus in order to perform for two days at Kerkrade; the band of the tiny town of Eijsden, Holland, which was accompanied to the concours by 2,000 cheering supporters; the Banda Primitiva of Liria, Spain, whose conductor entertained the crowd by dancing on his toes in front of his musicians as they played. When all was said, sung, marched, tootled and done, the overall winner of the world's biggest brass-band competition was not a brass band at all but an amateur...
...weeks ago correspondents saw it being loaded on a truck for shipment to the coast, packed in a crate that cost the Leftist Government 7,000 pesetas. ¶ Bombed and destroyed by Rebel planes was the Duke of Alba's gigantic Liria Palace, but it had already been seized as a museum, its paintings shipped to the coast. In Valencia last week paintings of the Duke of Alba, which the general public has never had a chance to see, were put on public exhibition...
...Spain passed through Paris on his way back to Madrid last March he dropped in to visit his good friend Jose Maria Sert. On view at Senor Sert's studio were the great murals he had just painted for the Duke of Alba's elaborate Palacio de Liria. Wrought chiefly in tones of gold, the paintings represented the history of the Alba family, several of whom are saints, since the 14th Century. By the time Alfonso XIII got home, abdicated and got back to Paris, Artist Sert was well along with his next batch of murals. Designed...
JACOBO MARIA DEL PILAR CARLOS MANUEL STUART FITZ-JAMES. roth DUKE OF BERWICK, 27th DUQUE DE ALBA de Tonnes. Duque de Liria y Xerica, de Arjona, de Montoro y de Huescar, CONDE-DUQUE DE OLIVARES, MARQUES DEL CARPIO. Marques de Coria, de Eliche, de la Mota, de San Leonardo, de Sarria, de Taragona, de Villanueva del Rio. de Villanueva del Fresno, de Barcarrota y de la Algaba, 24th CONDE DE LEMOS, Conde de Lerin, de Monterrey, de Osorno, de Miranda del Castanar, de Andrade, de Fuentes de Valdepero, de Gelves, de Villalba, de San Esteban de Gormaz, de Fuentiduena...
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