Word: munguia
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...because the approach lights on the closed Runway 23-L, which pilots usually follow to guide their planes down, had been shut off. The Mexican controllers instructed Gilbert to line up his plane over an undisclosed ground reference point. He reported that he had done so, but Controller Luis Munguia warned: "You are at the left of the track." The pilot replied confidently, "Just a little...
...Basque nation-is rapidly dying in Spain. The Basques, once thought of as an exotic race of faithful shepherds living in the remote fastnesses of the Pyrenees, bearing such unpronounceable names as Zugazagoitia and speaking a totally incomprehensible tongue, no longer conform to their old image. From Urzaingui to Munguia, they have taken up Spanish in place of their own archaic language-an agglutinated monstrosity that, according to Basque legend, even the Devil could not learn: in seven years of trying, he mastered only the words for yes (bai) and no (ez). More important, Basques by the hundreds of thousands...
...post exchange, where the Army has a gift shop for combat men only, bracelets, pins, scarves, handbags disappeared like doughnuts at a Red Cross club. "Think of it," said Lieut. Rafael V. Munguia, in charge of the wrapping center: "Easter Sunday morning at home . . . with a touch of Paris in every town...
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