Word: manzanilla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...good salesman, Gallostra loved tall stories and long draughts of golden Manzanilla wine; he made friends with Spanish refugees as well as with Franco-loving aristocrats in the new world. In Mexico, officially registered as a "tourist," Gallostra granted Spanish visas, even lent money to Mexicans and to resident and refugee Spaniards who wanted to visit Spain (and whose names weren't on the Franco blacklist). He dreamed and labored for the day when Mexico would break relations with the impotent republican exile regime and recognize Franco Spain. He got many anonymous telephone calls threatening him with death...
...Spain. Don Carlos is the only Spanish blueblood who still pursues the medieval sport of bullfighting on horseback. He owns a breeding farm called El Monasterio, where he trains his own horses, raises his own fighting bulls. On Sunday afternoons there, breeders, toreros and aficionados pass the time drinking manzanilla and watching the duke work out on his bulls...