Word: paulino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Free at Last. In Rosario, Argentina, Convict José Paulino Diaz was finally paroled, got a good job on salary: cooking for the prisoners, as he had been doing all along...
...Power. Francisco Paulino Hermenegildo Teódulo Franco Bahamonde has never suffered from pallid faith in his own star. "God is with me," he said in public last September, "and those God helps along never fail to win." His path to totalitarian power has been religious and ruthless, stubborn and supple, medieval and modern, simple and complex. For almost three decades he has been a man of violence and inquisitorial intolerance. He hunts wild boars and rojos ("reds," meaning practically all political opponents) with equal intensity. Yet he has seldom failed to say a nightly rosary with his wife Carmen...