Word: mera
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes the radio had spread the news through Cuba. Next morning, a dozen top government officials and almost all newspapers denounced the shooting. But Army Chief Genovevo Pérez Dàmera was unimpressed. Said he: "The Army is proud of the action by Captain Casillas, who repelled aggression. We hope all members of the armed forces will conduct themselves in the same manner." President Ramón Grau San Martín kept quiet, but Genovevo had seen him before he made his statement...
...glum between his guards. Hard-boiled Rolando Masferrer, one of his Cuban lieutenants, who had not wanted to turn back even under Cuban Navy guns, was asked to say a few words for the radio. He grabbed the mike, cursed Cuban Army Chief Genovevo Pérez Dámera as a traitor. When told to mind his words, he slugged the announcer with the mike. Angel Morales, chief of the Dominican exiles, blamed the failure on "destiny," vowed that the fight would...
...face of all the griping, the Army, so important in Cuban politics, is still on Grau's side. That makes for security. Most weekends Grau hops into a military plane and flies off with his family and fat, pompous Army Chief Genovevo Pérez Dámera to sun himself on the beach at beautiful Veradero...
...Oriente jungle, on the eastern slopes of the Andes, a region once claimed by neighboring Peru. Ten years ago, Shell tackled the job by airplane and muleback, spent an amount unofficially estimated at $100,000,000, blueprinted a $35,000,000 pipeline, built highways and a village (Shell Mera...
...quarrel has never been with young mera who enlist in such services, but with older and more ambitious men who would send our youth, under compulsion, to war in the service of an Anglo-American imperialism...