Word: sancho
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...with four representatives each, that will meet again in November. Meantime, the war would continue: there was no accord on a ceasefire. Said Guillermo Ungo, speaking for the rebels: "There are, obviously, differences. But we have reached a preliminary agreement." From the steps of the church, F.M.L.N. Commander Eduardo Sancho Castañeda shouted a theme to the crowd, which quickly took it up: "We all want peace, we all want peace, we all want peace...
...aliases from this end," Roosevelt replies with his sardonic humor, "will be (a) Don Quixote and (b) Sancho Panza." Churchill feels slightly piqued: "However did you think of such an impenetrable disguise? In order to make it even harder for the enemy and to discourage irreverent guesswork propose Admiral Q. and Mr. P. ... We must mind...
Next comes Eduardo Sancho Castañeda, 37, leader of the 2,000-member Armed Forces of National Resistance (FARN). (He is better known by his nom de guerre, Fermán Cienfuegos.) A founding member of Villalobos' group, Sancho broke away after the Dalton murder in 1975. Ideologically, FARN is believed to be the most conciliatory and nationalistic of the guerrilla organizations, and the most hostile to Soviet and Cuban influence. Least influential is Roberto Roca, 36, head of the 300-member armed faction of the Central American Workers' Revolutionary Party...
...proverb," said Cervantes, "is a short sentence based on long experience," and to prove it he had Sancho and his paisanos fling those sentences around like pesetas: "There's no sauce in the world like hunger"; "Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last"; "Patience, and shuffle the cards." His English contemporary was of two minds about folklore, as he was about everything. Hamlet disdains it: "The proverb is something musty." Yet the plays overflow with musty somethings: "Men are April when they woo; December when they wed"; "A little pot and soon...
...Like Sancho and Shakespeare, those who praise proverbs favor nature over artifice and peasantry over peerage. Benjamin Franklin always preferred "a drop of reason to a flood of words" and filled Poor Richard's Almanac with colonial one-liners: "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead"; "The used key is always bright." Emerson thought proverbs "the sanctuary of the intuitions." Tolstoy's knowledge of common tradition led him to an encyclopedia of wisdom. Eastern European sayings have always assumed the clarity and force of vodka: "Where the needle goes, the thread follows"; "The devil...