Word: llanos
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Marquis Gonzalo Queipo de Llano y Sierra, 76, a general under Franco in Spain's 1936-39 civil war; after long illness; near Seville. The marquis was famed for only one military feat: outfoxing superior Loyalist forces in Seville, and easily taking the city. Mostly, he fought the war-and won his reputation-with nightly propaganda broadcasts ("The common people are swine . . . Spain must again be made a country fit for caballeros to live...