Word: os
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...diplomatic complications were added spice for society's new season in Madrid. Plain Madrileños kept their eyes on the main course. "All this gilt and polish is very fine," observed one citizen. "But let's hope that something more substantial and necessary will come afterwards : good green American dollars...
...Women queued up at public fountains for water (turned off ten hours each day in homes). In shop windows and coffeehouses candles and oil lamps replaced light bulbs and neon signs. Movies were limited to one show daily. While helpless officials talked of building new hydroelectric plants, Madrileños roamed the crowded streets aimlessly, peering at the clear skies for signs of rain...
...porteños really thought that the new price-control campaign would be any more successful in the long run than its predecessors. Years of cumbersome and inefficient state trade manipulation and Perónista economics had put strains on the old prewar price structure which no amount of makeshift shoring up could relieve. But for the time being this week, Buenos Aires merchants were dutifully keeping their eyes on the new price lists and waiting for the heat to die down...
...religious fervor swept a country in which life, year by year, gets harder. From Málaga to Zamora and from Murcia to Pamplona, thousands of black-robed, black-hooded men, carrying a cross in one hand, a torch in the other, formed endless Holy Week processions. Madrileños also pushed baby carriages loaded with infants, black bread, sausage and wine into the country for Easter picnics, saw the Castilian plateau in an almost forgotten dress. Since 1942 central Spain has been brown and barren with drought. Last week the plain was alive with white and yellow flowers; trees...