Word: mancha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...windswept plateau of La Mancha, where Don Quixote once tilted with windmills, a man from the Spanish S.P.C.A. last week came upon a midget sitting beside his dog in an empty lot outside the town of Manzanares. The midget was guarding all that remained of a once great German circus that got stranded at Manzanares almost 14 months...
Summer in La Mancha is as fiercely hot as winter is bitter cold. In July, when the temperature rose to 104°, two bears died. Grutzius buried the bears beside the ele phants. Eventually Madrid's Society for the Protection of Animals (a not very aggressive outfit in the land of bullfighting) belatedly arrived on the scene. All that was left of the once-proud circus Holzmuller was the midget, his dog, five emaciated bears, a scraggy monkey, three performing dogs and one eagle, all too weak...
Palencia began his straightforward observations of rural Spain as a child herding sheep on the arid plain of La Mancha, where Don Quixote started on his famous travels. At nine, Palencia's sketches of animals and lively peasant fiestas caught the eye of Don Rafael López Egoniz, a well-to-do Spanish engineer and art collector. He persuaded Benjamin's parents to let him take the youngster back to Madrid as his ward. There he set the boy to studying the great Spanish masters, but carefully kept him out of Madrid's traditionalist art schools...