Word: pomp
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...ever brought to America (by Cortés in 1519), Mexicans have always preferred bullfighting. In the '80s, when racing reached epidemic proportions in the U.S., Mexicans caught the fever for a while. Mexico City's Condesa race track, which flourished under President Porfirio Diaz, had the pomp of England's royal Ascot...
...duration--much of the color present in recent contests will be lacking. Because of transportation regulations laid down by the ODT, the Cadets are not accompanying their team, and, even though most of the officers and men connected with the University will march instead, much of the pomp and circumstance characteristic of Harvard-Army games in the halcyon past will not be present this afternoon...
...time the Falange has tangled with militarists who say they won the war and have a winner's right to rule, and with Monarchists who want Spanish rule returned to the House of Bourbon. Needing the Falange for political support, Franco also knows that its practices and pipsqueak pomp are anathema to the Spanish people...
...Pomp, Not Panic. Although Hitler is supposed to have boasted that the Germans will be in Alexandria by July 8 and in Cairo by the 13th, there are practically no signs of evacuation or panic. The American Embassy and Military Mission Headquarters function with the same cool efficiency which characterized them when the enemy was well on the other side of Tobruk...
Egyptians still have endless time for pomp and ceremony. This weekend the entire village of Mena gathered for two days in the shadows of the Pyramids to celebrate the wedding of a village...