Word: pita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Leftist defending force in frontal attack, while Rightist Generals Garcia Valino and Aranda swept around the Leftists' wings, met behind them and then swept on toward the Mediterranean in a 16-mile-wide offensive. Twenty miles of coast, from the outskirts of San Carlos de la Rápita to Peñiscola were in Rightist hands by week...
...surprisingly cleanly officers' mess in the noisome Gran Chaco last week neutral Argentine General Martinez Pita genially introduced the two grim commanders whose armies battled each other savagely for years until the recent truce (TIME, June 24). Silently big Bolivia's tenacious General Enrique Penaranda, who was nearly defeated, gripped hands with small Paraguay's resourceful General Josè Felix Estigarribia who came so near to winning that it is rumored he will get a life pension of 1,500 gold pesos. After an exchange of champagne toasts all present mellowed...
Greatly dismayed was U. S. Ambassador Claude Gernade Bowers who hastened to Foreign Minister Leandro Pita Romero to deplore the unhappy effect of the new verdict on U. S. public opinion just at the time when Spain wants an increase in its U. S. import quota for Spanish wines...
...painted pig in the market of Cuernavaca." At Mexico City Mrs. Morrow met Artist d'Harnoncourt who showed her his famed collection of 850 Mexican toys. She begged him to write a story about them. Instead he illustrated the book which she wrote. The story: Pita, "a little Indian girl who lived in Mexico between the smoking mountains and the cactus with red flowers," and her brother Pedro go to the market place...
...painted clay pig bank. Pita has a pig, Pedro wants one like it. Pancho, the toyman (drawn from a mason who worked on the Morrow weekend abode at Cuernavaca) has no pigs, tries to sell them instead straw horses, jumping jacks, grotesque clowns, birds shaped from polished gourds. Disappointed, Pedro tries to make a pig himself, fails miserably. After many months Pancho makes Pedro a special pig. Specimen of the text: "He [Pita's pig] was painted yellow, with pink roses on his back and a tiny rosebud on his tail. He looked fat, but he was fed nothing...