Word: os
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early Sunday morning, under a slate-grey sky, Madrileños lined up in silent queues outside a thousand polls in schools and public buildings. In the capital, as all over Falangist Spain, the election of municipal councilmen went on without any of the dash and urgency of truly free elections. There had been no posters, no slogans, no handbills, no last-minute soapbox speeches, no discussions, no parades, no cheers or boos for candidates...
...Pointed Parable. Recently a Caracas reporter named Oscar Yanes wrote a story under the headline, IN CARACAS, EVERYBODY'S GROUCHY. Mourned Yanes: "Every day, people laugh less," and he illustrated his point with a photograph of caraqueños glumly leaving a movie theater after a comedy. Everywhere Yanes found unsmiling citizens giving each other the rough sides of their tongues. "Pardon me," said Yanes to a man he had jostled in the street. "Pardon, is it? A little more of that and I'll slug you?" was the reply. Yanes left the reader to wonder what Venezuelans...
What Madrileños really wanted for their money was not bulls, but beef. The ruckus at the ring, in defiance of Franco's rule, was another symptom of Spain's rising anger with the Franco administration. Its chief causes: high prices, black marketeers and official corruption. The strike wave began in Barcelona (TIME, March 19) and Pamplona (TIME, May 21). Last week Madrid followed with a mass demonstration, its first since the civil war. Chain letters and clandestine pamphlets touched off 300,000 to 400,000 workers on a buyers' strike. They stayed away from buses...
...first day of the new regime was calm. But during the night, bonfires burned in the hills near the capital, ominously spelling out in the darkness the initials M.N.R. The following night, partisans attacked a police station; one policeman was killed, three wounded. That, paceños feared, was only the beginning...
When a rumor got around La Paz last week that the President was deep in a closed-door conference with the generals and colonels, paceños knew that something was up. At 3 a.m., weary reporters saw President Mamerto Urriolagoitia and two military aides hustle out of the palace, get into a car and drive away. Then army officers Banded out a batch of press releases, including a message from Urriolagoitia: "Despite my constant efforts to conduct the political struggle into channels of peace and tranquillity . . . our country is again faced with a dilemma . . . Accordingly, I hereby deliver...