Word: medinae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gustavo Adolfo de Maldonado Medina, as a Bolivian and representing the soul of my people, ask satisfaction on the field of honor from the man responsible for your article [March 2], and name, as the situation demands, my seconds, who shall be Fernando San Martin and Colonel Gustavo Maldonado San Martin...
...political climate changed in Venezuela and Betancourt returned to organize A.D. Four years later he and his party joined with a group of young army officers to overthrow President Isaias Medina Angarita. In power as provisional President, Betancourt overzealously tried to cram decades of reform and development into two brief years, thereby built a wall of resentment. He presided over the election that put A.D.'s Rómulo Gallegos, a noted novelist, into the presidency in 1948. Reports that A.D. planned to de-emphasize army influence by arming an irregular band of stalwarts helped turn the military against...
...Fenders of Justice. In Medina, Ohio. Truck Driver Charles Reed rounded a corner, collided with a deputy sheriff's parked car, which collided with a judge's car, which collided with a highway patrol car, but went scot-free because the sheriff's car was illegally parked too near the intersection...
...Salaam. At 13, Abdie faced a perplexing problem. Living with his widowed mother in neat poverty in the New Medina (a Moslem quarter) of Casablanca, he was told "if you leave, you'll break your mother's heart." But if he stayed in Morocco, where only a fraction of the children get past elementary school, he might end up like his father who was an office messenger until he died. So Abdie found a solution: he persuaded his older brother to let one of his own children live with his mother while he is away...
...course rape does not mean pregnancy in children so young except in rare cases." In 30 years as an obstetrician he had seen four such cases in girls under eleven; Hilda Trujillo was only the second youngest. Eighteen years before he assisted in the case of the youngest: Lina Medina, pregnant at the age of five years, eight months; mother, by Caesarean section, of a normal boy at the age of six years, five months (TIME...