Word: manzanilla
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...Spain, which many Americans first discovered this year, they drank manzanilla in fake gypsy caves, trooped past the magnificent pictures in the Prado, and visited the "house of El Greco" in Toledo -in which he never lived (it was built near the site of his home some years after his death). Tourists overtipped cab drivers, loaded up with mantillas, castanets and other trinkets, and thus sent prices up. The bullfights roused strong emotions in them: they either cheered the bull, marveled at the matador, or fainted at the sight of blood...
...Blueblood." The legacy made all of Carmen's daydreams come true-a palace in Seville, a ranch in Andalusia, three houses in Granada, a mansion in San Sebastián, stocks, bonds, and millions of pesetas in cash. The Trigos were beside themselves with joy. They uncorked the Manzanilla. The janitor and some friends stopped in to see what the commotion was about and left to publish the good tidings. By morning the news had spread to the papers in Madrid. Gifts poured in from fashion houses and perfume firms. A local bank placed a 100,000-peseta (about...
Crowds gathered outside the building, for Don Francisco's windows were generously open. When Bank Manager Jose Santamaria sent plenipotentiaries upstairs with a request please to stop the noise, Don Francisco greeted them from his armchair where he lolled, walking stick between his knees, a glass of manzanilla in his hand. "Go away," he waved. "Let a man enjoy music in peace. Get back to your figures and books. Kindly disturb me no longer...
...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...