Word: nez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tripped prettily off Viasa Flight 737 with her fiancé, and was walking toward immigration at the Caracas terminal when sharp-eyed Venezuelan plainclothesmen decided she was too round to be real. When they searched Josefa Ventosa Jiménez, 22, they found that the fetching passenger from Rome was wearing a specially made girdle stuffed with 1,200 crisp $100 bills. Her companion, Alessandro Beltramini, 53, a Milan physician and longtime Communist, was also well padded: his vest yielded...
Some chanted: "Viva el General! Viva el General!" Others cried: "Thief! Assassin! Son of a whore!" As police held back the crowd of 3,000, the armored van carrying Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 50, from his jail cell pulled up in front of Caracas' Supreme Court building. It had been more than seven years since the pudgy strongman was overthrown, and last week, after well-heeled exile in the U.S. and 19 not-too-austere months in Venezuelan prisons, Pérez Jiménez was finally being brought to trial...
...nez seemed as buoyant as ever and just as fat. In Venezuelan jails he has regained the 50 lbs. that he lost in a Miami cell during the extradition proceedings. In the small courtroom, he chatted jocularly with the old cronies and reporters who swarmed around him. Even after the 15 justices had taken their places and the prosecuting attorney started droning through the 417-page indictment, P.J. continued to whisper to newsmen, who had not been allowed to interview him since his return. Among other courtroom comments, some of which were broadcast live on nationwide TV, the unchastened...
...observed, and P.J.'s lawyers are planning an elaborate defense based on the argument that, since Congress authorized all appropriations and supervised the spending during P.J.'s regime, their client cannot be held responsible for the missing millions. In a way, Pérez Jiménez would make good his oft-repeated pledge: "Venezuela has not heard the last...
...Pince-nez aquiver on his nose, the elegant banker leaned across the wood-inlaid desk in his Zurich office last week and complained: "We have been called Shylocks, gnomes, sinister manipulators -even greedy thieves. These campaigns really wound us. At times it makes one melancholy...