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Word: mero (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...check for one painting, a leader of Ft. Worth's oiligarchy reserved another four paintings, and U.S. museums hurried to get in bids. Focus of all the excitement: Mexican Muralist and Painter Rufino Tamayo, 56, today hailed in his own land as Mexico's modernist número...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Numero Uno | 10/15/1956 | See Source »

...grey, early morning of June 2, a truck was found smashed and burning in a ravine at El Número, on the coastal highway south of Ciudad Trujillo. Twisted in the gasoline-soaked wreckage were the bodies of six people. The wreck was listed as an accident by the Dominican government, and no details concerning an investigation were ever released...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Accident or Ambush? | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...Presidente himself insisted that he knew nothing of what had happened at El Número. That in itself was odd. He once told an intimate: "Whenever anything happens here that I don't know about, or whenever anyone takes it upon himself to act without my authority, my days are numbered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC: Accident or Ambush? | 8/21/1950 | See Source »

...gang war, to determine whose bullet killed whom. So Dried Meat beat the murder rap, but he got six months in jail for illegal possession of arms. He served three months, then escaped through a sewer. While the press played him up as "Inimigo Público Número Um," the police unleashed Rio's most spectacular manhunt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Man Hunt | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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