Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alert airlines agent tipped off reporters that the Isabel Martínez de Perón, 32, on the manifest was exiled Argentine Dictator Juan Perón's comely blonde wife, and when she landed from Spain at New York's Kennedy airport, the newshounds had her surrounded. She was just changing planes, she cooed, and was on her way for a three-week "vacation" in Asunción, Paraguay. Since sun-scorched little Paraguay is hardly a jet-set spa, rumors buzzed that she was preparing yet another Perón attempt at El Retorno. Peronistas...
...from the Roman Catholic Church's most influential order are meeting in Rome to choose their 28th Father General and to discuss ways of applying the Vatican Council's spirit of renewal to the remarkable company of men founded 431 years ago by St. Ignatius Loyola of Spain...
Early this year, Delgado and his attractive Brazilian secretary, Arajarir Campos, vanished from his home in Algiers, reportedly to meet with anti-Salazar conspirators in Spain. Except for a few postcards, the last one mailed from the Spanish town of Badajoz on the Portuguese border, Delgado was not heard from again. Last month, two small boys passing through a eucalyptus grove near Badajoz stumbled upon two shallow graves, one containing the corpse of a man whose face and fingers were disfigured. In the other lay the half-naked body of a woman. Both had been murdered by heavy blows...
...penalize individual beliefs. As for the free-speech argument, he said, "the right to speak and publish does not carry with it the unrestrained right to gather information." But what about delegation of powers? Acting under the 1926 law, said Warren, the State Department restricted travel to Ethiopia, Spain and China in the 1930s, and later to many Iron Curtain countries. By not acting, said Warren, Congress implicitly approved such administrative rules...
From Pirandello & Moravia. The Italian project is part of a worldwide push toward updating languages. France, Germany, The Netherlands, Spain and Greece all have recently undertaken or completed such projects, most of them inspired by the Oxford English Dictionary, whose final volume was published in 1928. Even with the aid of IBM computers, which will record and digest words from such great Italian writers as Boccaccio, Petrarch, Machiavelli, Pirandello, Moravia-and Dante -the job is expected to take 50 years...