Word: nicolal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soggy Pancakes. About 475 miles from Honolulu the Diesel gave up altogether, and at that point passengers discovered that one of the two lifeboats was loaded with cases of soda pop. The other had a hole in it. The passengers prayed; Captain E. M. Nicol radioed the U.S. Coast Guard. Almost five days later, the Pasado was towed into Honolulu. As she approached the harbor the stove blew up and splashed its soggy batch of pancakes against the overhead...
...sixty-year-old Nicolás Rodriguez Díaz, on his farm in western Cuba, and to some 50,000 colonos (sugar planters) like him, it was startling news. At the cockfight in town, and over a glass of country wine in the bodega afterward, he and fellow colonos talked angrily of raising less cane if they were not cut in on the price rise. Some even heeded the tocsin of the leftist Federation of Campesinos (Farmers), boarded trains and buses for Havana, demonstrated on the Capitolio's steps (see cut). By last week President Grau was reported...
...schools, the farm credit bank, the country roads, and the rest of President Grau's program for raising rural standards of living and abating the tyranny of King Sugar, Nicolás said: "The work the politicians do for the campesino is tomorrow, and I have to live today. I have never received anything from Havana, and don't know of anyone who has. To the politicians the campesino is just a poor campesino, and they let it go at that...
...French, Italian, Austrian and Belgian Socialists had a different position. They foresaw an eventual break with the Communists, but thought the present moment was "premature." Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Holland strung along with the British Labor Party, as they usually do. The Argentine delegate, Nicolás Repetto, hoped a Socialist International might help him fight Perón. A Canadian delegate favored an anti-Communist Socialist International, but he had a worry of his own: "Any future war will be between America and Russia-and we Canadians are between. We will get the atom bombs that miss...
...Lisbon Pretender Don Juan, son of Alfonso XIII, still awaited a summons to Madrid. He was in touch with the Caudillo's brother Nicolás, Spain's ambassador to Portugal. But the Caudillo had blown hot & cold on Don Juan. Falangists gibed at his British naval training, called him "the little British sailor in the service of Communism...