Word: pla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ABOARD U.S.S. MT. MCKINLEY IN BIKINI LAGOON, TUESDAY--The atom bomb test explosion sank or damaged half of the 73-ship target fleet in Bikini Lagoon but failed to kill some of the goats left aboard the battleship Pennsylvania and fish still were swimming pla- cidly today in radioactive waters...
...Church has no love for the Falange, its rival in education and ideology. It still goes along with Franco but would prefer Gil Robles, an anti-Franco exile in Lisbon, or some other conservative, if a change could be achieved without bloodshed. Two weeks ago Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, who, as bishop of Salamanca, had helped Franco mightily during the civil war, explained his present position toward the Spanish regime. "During Primo de Rivera's dictatorship, I proclaimed that the Church is above politics. I repeated it during the Republic. I said it again for the first time...
...Galen of Munster, whose anti-Nazi sermons and pastorals nearly cost him his life; benign, bald Bishop Konrad von Preysing of Berlin, who, when the Nazis came into power, said publicly: "We have fallen into the hands of criminals and fools." Typical Spanish appointment: small, bespectacled Archbishop Enrique Pla y Deniel of Toledo, who was the first prelate appointed in Spain after Franco signed his agreement with the Vatican in 1941, and whose palace at Salamanca Franco used as headquarters during part of the civil...
...give me a home near the Capitol dome, With a yard where little children can play; Just one room or two, any old thing will do, Oh, we can't find a pla-ace to stay...
...concordat he long wanted-which the Vatican long refused to grant him-and last month picked the new Primate of Spain, his relationship with the Vatican has been much more cordial. A further indication of this came last week when Rome heard reports that the new Primate, Archbishop Enrique Pla y Daniel of Toledo, would be made a cardinal before the year's end. If so, his will be the first red hat Pope Pius XII has bestowed...