Word: spain
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parliamentary means, the extremists coldly set out to create an atmosphere of near civil war, reminiscent of the May 1958 uprising that toppled the Fourth Republic. At midweek, Gaullist Lucien Neuwirth, World War II underground fighter, publicly charged that a "commando of killers" had crossed into France from Spain with orders to assassinate leading ministers, government officials, and newspaper editors. Police pooh-poohed the warning until Left-Wing Senator François Mitterrand, who supports negotiations with the F.L.N., narrowly escaped death in the heart of Paris, when unidentified machine gunners riddled his car. Alarmed at last, the government doubled...
...Moslem country of the south. The dances were as varied as the Arabic, Malayan and Spanish ethnic influences that formed them: a Bontoc war dance had loinclothed dancers running and bounding about in a blur of flailing shields and spears; a wedding-party dance had a suggestion of Spain in the gentle sway of hip and shoulder. In one of the evening's high points the company performed a traditional pole dance, stepping with unhurried grace through a grid of clashing poles clapped together in an accelerating syncopated rhythm. The dancers-many of them in their teens-showed...
...Around. Being poor no more, Bob Ruark can and does travel where he likes, maintains a house in London and two in Spain, is an ilustrisimo Knight Commander of Spain's Order of Civil Merit. Not the least of the Knight's luxuries is a former sergeant-major in the British army named Alan Ritchie, who serves him as secretary, listens to his plots develop, and transcribes Ruark's massive manuscripts...
...Lisbon to Dunkirk, pick up the Duke of Parma's powerful army, toughened by the Low Country wars, and invade England. But, astoundingly, no provision had been made for getting the army aboard the Armada's vessels. The Duke of Parma had no deep-water port, and Spain's fighting ships could not get within miles of Dunkirk's beach. Parma had only a few rotting barges to bridge the distance. But as things turned out, the Duke never had his chance to drown because the Armada, intercepted by the British, never got near Dunkirk. This...
During the 19th century, some Jews began to drift back to Spain, followed in the 1930s and '40s by refugees from Naziism, and more recently by Jewish migrants from Morocco. Today there are about 3,000 Jews in Spain (pop. 29,662,000), about 200 of them in Madrid. During the past decade, with tentative approval from the Franco regime, Madrid's Jews have held makeshift services in a room that became known, after its owner, as "Lawenda's basement"; occasionally, they managed to rent space in the Castellano Hilton for the High Holy Days. Then, five...