Word: llanos
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...Columbus's departures for the New World, Andalusians who had thrown few bouquets at the Italians when they arrived 20 months ago cried "Viva Italia! Viva Mussolini!" as 4,000 of the departing Latins gave a farewell salute to tough, boastful General Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, Commander of the Rightist Southern Army...
...hurled their full force, but at last reports had failed to breach the line at any spot. To prevent General Miaja from withdrawing long-inactive troops scattered along southern Spain's far-flung battle line for the defense of Valencia, the Rightists' famed radiorating General Queipo de Llano, commander-in-chief of southern Rightist Spain, was last week ordered to drive against another Leftist balloon-shaped salient. This balloon, 3,125 sq. mi. of the rich, mineral-producing Estremadura region, bulged into Rightist, lines north of Cordoba and extended to within 50 miles of the Portuguese border. This...
...feet were bruised and bleeding. On the eve of Good Friday the stately Madonna, Our Lady of Solitude, was carried into Seville Cathedral amid absolute, prayerful silence by the vast throng. Present on Palm Sunday as the Generalissimo's representative, was usually loud "Radio General" Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, silent for once. He had walked for five hours in one of the mystic Holy Week processions...
Sensationally omitted from President Franco's first Cabinet was hoarse-voiced "Radio General" Gonzalo Queipo de Llano, the Rightist commander at Seville. Immediately after publication of the Cabinet list General Queipo went to the micro phone. "The Government is taking charge of everything, including the purpose of my talks," said he, "therefore it is nat ural that these chats cease...
...assassinate" seven British Laborite M.P.'s who had been visiting Valencia's law courts, were on their way to a luncheon at the officers' training camp. The nearest bomb fell at least a quarter of a mile away, but the Rightist's radiorating Queipo de Llano soon made priceless Leftist propaganda by bellowing that the British Laborites are "Marxist scoundrels and a pack of savages whom we will punish as they ought to be punished...