Word: morro
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fire at Sea, by Thomas Gallagher. A suspenseful, factual whodunit about the burning of the cruise ship Morro Castle...
Fire at Sea, by Thomas Gallagher. Was the flaming death of the cruise ship Morro Castle a horrendous case of arson? Reporter Gallagher files a fascinating, if circumstantial, brief against the ship's chief radio operator...
...named Gregorio Fuentes. Then Hemingway shucks off his shoes and socks, chins himself on the edge of the Pilar's flying bridge, throws one leg up, and, favoring his sore back, slowly raises himself to the roof to take the set of controls. The Pilar glides trimly past Morro Castle. Hemingway delightedly sniffs the sea-grape-scented air and gestures to the whole ocean. "It's the last free place there...
...Morro Bay, Calif...
...Puerto Rican U.S. Army sergeant, watching another flag-raising ceremony at San Juan's old El Morro fortress, echoed the governor's sentiment in other words: "The United States," he said, "would never permit the flag of a lousy colony to fly beside its own. This means Puerto Rico has arrived...