Word: spain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
FERNANDO BONEU Lerida, Spain...
While the U.S. was occupied with the Civil War, Spain regained control of its former colony of Santo Domingo and France set up the Austrian Archduke Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico. But in 1865, shortly after Appomattox, the Spaniards cleared out of Santo Domingo; a year later France, under U.S. pressure, began pulling its troops out of Mexico, leaving Maximilian to die before a Mexican firing squad. In 1903, after Germany, Britain and Italy decreed a blockade of Venezuela to force the dictator of the day to pay claims due their citizens, President Theodore Roosevelt warned the Europeans away with...
Hispaniola became Spain's first permanent colony in the New World, its key harbor and free port to all the Indies. From the Santo Domingo capital, Ponce de León sailed forth to Florida, Balboa discovered the Pacific, Pizarro invaded Peru, and Cortés conquered Mexico. It was the site of Latin America's first cathedral in 1514, its first university in 1538. Even then it was a land of violence, where men carried the law in their knives, and the captains from Castile thought nothing of shearing an ear from a disobedient Indian or letting...
...SPAIN. Despite its seasonal fiesta spirit, Spain is often harsh about dress or conduct that offends its moral sensibilities. Overexposure in cities, for example, can bring quick arrest. Drunken or boisterous visitors may find themselves barred from Spain indefinitely. For minor tourist crimes, Spanish courts usually recommend deportation. There are no juries, and judges can be tough on foreigners accused of illegally exporting art objects, leaving the scene of an accident, or failing to pay a hotel bill, to say nothing of criticizing Franco. Accused tourists should forget trying to skip the country. Spanish police are quite efficient. Happily, this...
...Britain's retired Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and a second-year student at Oxford's brainy Balliol College; from an apparent overdose of drugs; two days after returning from a Madrid vacation with his fiancée, Kara Yatsevitch, 18, daughter of an American diplomat stationed in Spain; in his room at Oxford...