Word: puerta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Laguerre reported that inasmuch as New Year's Day falls on Saturday, normally the heaviest work day of the week for overseas bureau-men, any undue celebrating the night before would automatically bring its own punishment. In Madrid, Correspondent Piero Saporiti expected to join the crowd in the Puerta del Sol (Madrid's Times Square), dodging the used electric light bulbs that Madridians store away for this occasion, whirring a wooden zambomba which gives out a deafening clack, and brandishing a bunch of grapes over his head (you eat twelve grapes as the New Year comes...
...sorry steed but in a Packard limousine (he no longer uses a German Mercedes-Benz), the most unquixotic of Spaniards drove through his capital. His Sancho Panzas were red-bereted bodyguards armed with Tommy guns. A clamorous crowd was assembled to cheer his progress through the Puerta del Sol. They gave the Falangist salute. They chanted: "Franco! Franco! Franco!" They screamed: "Franco, yes! Russia...
Travels of a Marine. The Smiths have been travelers, like all Marines: they lived in Bremerton, Seattle, Manila, Cavite, Shanghai, Puerta Plata, Norfolk, Newport, Port-au-Prince, Quantico, Philadelphia, New Orleans, Long Beach, San Francisco, Washington, San Diego. In one two-year stretch they moved 14 times...
...appointed day, in the big, black Mercédés-Benz given him by Hitler, the Caudillo slid down the Puerta del Sol and Carrera de San Jerónimo. In the Puerta del Sol. he was greeted by trumpeters, and again in front of the Cortes...
...that in Spain's year of peace few war scars had healed. And if anyone wanted to see what Western Europe had a good chance of looking like after a year or so of total war, Spain was the place to see it. A few miles from the Puerta del Sol, Madrid's hub, lie the desolate ruins of suburbs where fighting raged for more than two years. The $50,000,000 University City is a pile of rubble, and in West Park, where trenches still remain, only 33 trees are left standing. In Barcelona and Bilbao, Spain...