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Word: rolando (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

...Blame. Their leaders were not so buoyant. Dominican General Juan Rodriguez García, who had put $400,000 of his own money in the venture, walked bent and glum between his guards. Hard-boiled Rolando Masferrer, one of his Cuban lieutenants, who had not wanted to turn back even under Cuban Navy guns, was asked to say a few words for the radio. He grabbed the mike, cursed Cuban Army Chief Genovevo Pérez Dámera as a traitor. When told to mind his words, he slugged the announcer with the mike. Angel Morales, chief...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Filibuster's End | 10/13/1947 | See Source »

...battle that raged below and across the ships' decks, they settled their argument. When Paraguay's Ambassador Alfonso Dos Santos rushed down to fix things for Morínigo, he was kicked bodily down the gangplank. Three officers went to the hospital. Then, under command of Lieut. Rolando Ibarra, the gunboats cast off, sailed away to join the revolutionists...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PARAGUAY: The Battle of Buenos Aires | 5/19/1947 | See Source »

...Mexico's Davis Cup brother act-Rolando and Armando Vega-took a deep breath and blew Canada out of the running without losing a set. The U.S. team, which swallowed the underweight Filipinos in the other American zone Davis Cup playoff, must now tangle with the Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Out Go the French | 6/24/1946 | See Source »

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