Word: plaza
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles of Franco entrenchments. The Communist stronghold was in the partly completed Government buildings on the old race-track course in northeastern Madrid, less than two miles from the Franco trenches in University City. At one time the Communist revolters surged down the Paseo de Recoletos to the famed Plaza de Cibeles, on which are located the buildings of the Banco de Espana, the central post office and the War Ministry. They were driven back by a tank attack...
...week 300 people were enjoying a movie in Chillán's National Theatre. Suddenly, above the screen voices, came an ominous, familiar rumble. Everyone knew what it meant but before anyone could get to the street, the walls buckled and the roof crashed. Outside in the heaving plaza, heavy brick-walled buildings toppled into the street. The massive front of the Governor's Palace swayed forward, and fell in a cascade on several passing cars. Thousands of rotos and their families, caught in their beds, had no chance to move before their adobe homes fell on them...
...trucking strike has come and gone, and now it seems likely that no more than the usual number of people will starve this winter. But even at the height of the teamster troubles, no breath of famine touched the Copley-Plaza Hotel. Daily its massive menu continued to run the gamut of epicurcan delights. With this fact in mind, a Harvard Sophomore recently took a visiting aunt to dinner there...
...COPLEY-PLAZA...
...good-natured, reckless kids, they stole rides on the ore cars, hunted in the mountains, searched in the ruins for buried treasure. A little later they went to school in the States, to Lawrenceville and Sewanee, returning during vacations to Batopilas, where in the evenings they promenaded around the plaza with the young men of the town, while the band played and the young ladies eyed their admirers. They danced, trained fighting cocks, learned to drink. Sometimes they got into little scrapes with the police or the townspeople: when Con Shepherd tried to jump his horse over the drummer...