Word: pasionaria
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...stop on the tarmac some 200 yards from the main terminal at Madrid's Ba rajas Airport. After a brief delay, the doors opened and a frail figure in black descended the forward boarding ladder. At exactly 7:54 p.m. last Friday, Dolores Ibarruri, 81, La Pasionaria* of Spanish Civil War fame and president of the Spanish Communist Party, set foot on Spanish soil for the first time in 38 years...
...observation deck, about 200 Spanish Communists, most of them young, strained to catch a glimpse of their legendary leader. Some waved red flags with the party initials and the hammer and sickle emblazoned in gold. If they had hoped for a chance to greet her, they were disappointed. La Pasionaria was quickly whisked away in a private car to the home of a friend in Madrid. By the time the crowd had run to the baggage claim area, she was gone, leaving the party militants with nothing to do but chant "Si, si, si, Dolores a Madrid...
...narrow and any thoughtless act, any attitude that does not take reality into account could provoke catastrophic reactions for Spain and for democracy." Wary of fueling rightist anger, the party, cautiously, canceled a mass rally scheduled for early this week. The party's legendary heroine, Dolores ("La Pasionaria") Ibarruri, also was forced to delay her return to Spain from a long exile in Moscow...
...policy. A feisty debater, she has repeatedly discomfited Labor ministers with relentlessly logical and prodigiously well-informed attacks. Her continuous salvos against the Wilson government's proposals for higher tax rates on inherited wealth finally provoked Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey to call her "La Pasionaria of Privilege."* Mrs. Thatcher's rejoinder: "Some Chancellors are macroeconomic, some are fiscal; this one is just plain cheap...
...Pasionaria " was the pen name of Dolores Ibarruri, a Communist leader and propagandist during the Spanish Civil War who is credited as being the author of the aphorism that "it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...