Word: marts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High-minded José de San Martín, the good soldier who liberated Argentina and Chile (with the aid of Bernardo O'Higgins) from the yoke of Spain, died 97 years ago in poverty and self-imposed exile. Argentines have been trying to make up for it ever since; equestrian statues of him stand in almost every plaza. In 1880 his body was brought back from France, where he had gone in bitter disillusionment over political wrangling, and entombed in Buenos Aires Cathedral. From Spain last week, in two finely worked caskets, came the bones of his father...
Three immediate activities were on the agenda for the Council investigation. One was a survey of wages paid to dining hall workers, their relations to those offered by local competitors in the labor mart, and the rate of turnover of labor in College cafeterias...
...first day at Pamplona, it looked as if the great annual festival would be an anticlimax. Pepín Martín Vasquez, who has built up a reputation as one of the best of the younger men, was very bad. El Andaluz, an old hand, was just plain dull. But the bulls were bad that day, and the crowd tended to make excuses...
Next day the bulls were good. Although Pepín Martín had never been gored, he seemed nervous. After a halfhearted effort with his first bull, he ran away from his second, playing it at arm's length, then tried to kill it too soon. The crowd showered the ring with cushions and bottles, shouting "Fuera! Fuera!" (Get out!), and when the fight was over Pepin Martin had to dodge more cushions as he tried to sneak through the gate...
Better than Pepín Martín, but not what the crowd had come for, was Parrita. They call him "el Manolete de los pobres" (the poor man's Manolete). He is tall, a little heavyset, and looks like a Yale man learning to be a bond salesman. Parrita does one thing that only he and Manolete, who is the master, can do, and which may get them killed one afternoon. When he has the bull under complete control, Parrita will incite the bull to charge, then look up into the gallery as the bull passes him, depending...