Word: manzanilla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...George Francis) of Surjit Singh, an Indian, who works in the Security Council Library and is famed for his pale pastel turbans. One picture (by Denmark's Olav Mathiesen) of a shy nude and a knight was called Chaucer-Woman in Bath; Mexico's Victor Manzanilla-Schaffer, of U.N.'s narcotics division, contributed an abstraction which looked like a one-eyed blob of ectoplasm, called Ritmo (Rhythm). Asked a wag: "What's that? It looks like UNESCO...
...brick-and-adobe wall, servants rush out at the toot of a horn to open the wide iron-plate gates. Peacocks strut in the shade of the garden's lemon and eucalyptus trees, and dark-suited waiters move through the great halls inside, passing golden glasses of fine manzanilla sherry from Spain and serving tortillas on the end of a knife blade. La Punta can accommodate 30 guests with all the comforts of a metropolitan hotel...
...approach a peak when a breeder sees the carcass of one of his bulls being dragged around an arena, amid deafening oles, minus tail and ears, the tokens awarded to a matador for an especially glorious fight against an exceptionally fine bull. Says Don Pepe, hoisting his glass of manzanilla: "You feel, perhaps, that you've helped to create something noble, something brave, which knows how to die with greatness...
...face of a public-school don, but his heart was made of soldiering stuff. In spare time he boned up on automatic weapons, began instructing International brigadiers how to use them, wound up as commander of the British battalion. He was cool as a glass of iced manzanilla. At Jarama he led the puny British left wing's machine-gun crew through pitch night to a hill looking down on whole tribes of Moors. At dawn his guns nearly wiped out the boxed-in Moors. Late in the action he got a bullet in his knee, next...