Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Prompted by the World Evangelical Fellowship, Protestants all over the world last week offered prayers for their brothers in Spain. And Spain's 30,000-odd Protestant worshipers gathered in private homes, or in buildings that may show no sign that they are churches, to make their devotions' and give thanks for the prayers of their brethren in other lands. The Protestants of Spain, outnumbered by Roman Catholics 1,000 to 1, feel that they need all the prayers they...
...Catherine Carey; how the pressure of family and circumstance forced him to give her up; how she flirted around in college, then married a quasi-brutish, brilliant and sensitive medical student, Jerome Martell; how Martell, in his masculine fervor, was unfaithful to her, then left her to fight in Spain; how Martell was officially reported tortured and killed by the Nazis; how he, Stewart, at last marries his Catherine; and how, miraculously, the invincible Martell proved that reports of his death were greatly exaggerated and returned only to find Catherine ready to die from a heart condition she dreaded...
...laga, Spain...
Language was not the only trouble. The story itself seemed dated. When the book was published in 1940, Hemingway hardly had to explain why a teacher of Spanish from Montana would give up everything to fight in Spain. But today Robert Jordan, even in the hands of as good an actor as Jason Robards Jr., is hardly more than a cliché cut out of old newspapers. Maria Schell was moving enough as Maria, but the sentimentally written character scarcely seemed real, while Maureen Stapleton lacked the necessary hardness for Pilar. Eli Wallach was superb as the irresponsible gypsy Rafael...
...near-victim of an explosion in a salami-skin factory; learned in Sharja on the Arabian peninsula that the selling price of a slave girl is $270; gambled for low stakes with Cadillac-driving smugglers in Andorra, the tiny domain perched in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain. An ex-reporter for U.P. and a magazine writer, Sack employs a racily frenetic style, e.g., using "chugalug" as a verb meaning to drink and "crackajack" as an adjective meaning excellent, and is often as determinedly elfin as Tchico, the dog ghost of Sark. In rating the 13 microcosmic spots he visited...