Word: pizarro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Juan Pizarro went to the Braves in 1957 with a big buildup after winning 23 games for the Class A farm club at Jacksonville. The easygoing lefthander from Puerto Rico had control trouble with his blazing fast ball, was sent to Wichita to broaden his line of pitches. Explains Pizarro in broken English: "I got screwie [screwball] now. Learn screwie from Ruben Gomez [of the Giants] in winter league in Puerto Rico. Use it all time now." Back with Milwaukee less than a month. 21-year-old Juan Pizarro parlayed his fast one and the "screwie" into three victories...
...Chronicles ends with Cortés; leaving him behind, The Conquistadors moves on to Francisco Pizarro, the conqueror of Peru, whose life matches that of Cortés for sheer drama...
...forming of his expedition in Panama, his defeat of the Incas and his majesty as a marquis, ruler of "the empire of the sun." It moves, finally, to his death, like a Shakespearean tragic hero's on the swords of conspirators. Bloody feuds had broken out, and Pizarro's murderers saw themselves as avengers. Descola describes the scene: "This old man of nearly seventy handled his sword like a youngster. There were twenty against Pizarro and blows rained upon him. His arm weakened. A final thrust, and the Marquis crumpled, his throat cut. He cried out his confession...
...Judge. In his story of Cortés, Pizarro and the other conquistadors-Balboa, Coronado, Ponce de Leon, De Soto-Author Descola gives not only gaudy melodrama but also psychological insights, which make the figures on this great tapestry emerge as living men. In the end it was the Dominican, Las Casas, the "Apostle of the Indies," who judged the conquistador's pride. A conquistador himself before he entered his order, he served as a bishop in Mexico and bitterly fought against Spanish officials for the abolition of slavery; history has vindicated his demand that the conquered has equal...
...Buenos Aires the attackers, mostly former noncommissioned officers, stormed the downtown War Arsenal and the neighboring Army Mechanics' School. Meeting brisk fire coolly directed by the school's commander, Colonel Pizarro Jones, they fell back and were captured. In suburban Lanús, armed civilians attacked a police station; 18 of them and the two retired army officers who commanded them were executed on the spot...