Word: machos
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...most outspoken opponents of land reform to be gnarled-handed small holders. Felix Fernÿndez Pérez, the group's president, owner of 149 acres and once exiled as a fervent Castro supporter, told 1,000 cheering men: "Castro has fooled us." Said semiliterate Farmer Macho Villar, who also fought for Castro: "I will continue to defend my land as long as I have breath, because I obtained it with the sweat of my brow and it is the only thing I have to leave my children...
...much government opposition as the Catholics, but their proselytizing ran into sharp hostility, particularly in rural areas.) Mexico's churches have not been so crowded in living memory, and among the worshipers are far more men than in the old days, when it was not considered quite macho (manly) for a man to be seen in church alongside the womenfolk...
Only a few wondered if Europe's gain might be short-lived, or illusory, in the indivisible struggle against Communism everywhere. "He was muy macho" (a brave fellow), shrugged a Spaniard. "He won a war of guns and lost a war of words." "A whipping boy for many grievances," admitted the London Economist, which had done its bit in the anti-MacArthur chorus. The Athens Kathimerini editorialized: "The sacking of an American military leader as a sacrifice-for the British lion does not bring about unity." Hardheaded Turks talked about an Asian Munich...
...night last week the British-operated Ferrocarril Mexicano's night train from the port of Veracruz to Mexico City took on an oil-burning locomotive at Paso del Macho, began to wind its slow way through the rugged uplands toward the 7,400-ft.-high capital. When the train had rumbled half way across Paso Grande Bridge a dynamite explosion slapped the locomotive and tender against the bank of a 40-ft. ravine, tumbled two wooden sleeping cars to the ravine's bottom. Oil from a tank caught fire and flames engulfed the wreckage. A man pinned...