Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FAILURES AGAINST THE WEST. His adventure in Cuba two years ago ended in humiliation when the U.S. forced him to retreat. Where Stalin, armed with nothing tougher than tanks, had grabbed great swatches of territory and threatened other countries (Spain, Korea and Greece), Khrushchev, despite his ICBMs and thermonuclear terror, could gain nothing more than a small Caribbean island-and not even defend it. From the point of view of his critics, it was turning into a no-win policy, aggravated by ideological softness on capitalism. Military men also charged that he was relying on the nuclear deterrent too much...
...exploded the British governor when a Spanish general threatened to attack Gibraltar in 1748. "If you dare give me any more of your damned nonsense, I will kick you from Hell to Hackney." In the 260 years since Admiral Sir George Rooke captured the Rock from Spain, the kicking match has gone on almost nonstop. Last week, when General Francisco Franco opened his umpteenth campaign to regain the terrain for Spain, the British were ready with both feet...
...Shame of Spain." In stores that are indistinguishable from London shops 1,085 miles away, Hindu merchants do a roaring trade in duty-free Japanese radios, American cigarettes and German cameras. The 15,000 Spanish workers who flock to work in the colony each day - and take home more than $7,000,000 a year in relatively high British wages - make a lucrative second living from smuggling goods that can be sold for a hefty profit in highly taxed Spain. Irked by its loss of revenues as a result of smuggling, the Franco regime calls the British enclave the "shame...
...ancient superstition holds true, Gibraltar will be British just as long as it is inhabited by the famed Barbary apes that somehow found their way there from Morocco. In 1941, after Hitler promised to deliver the Rock to Franco in return for Spain's wartime support, word reached Winston Churchill that the simian population was dangerously depleted. The Prime Minister cabled back: STRENGTH OF ROCK APE PACK TO BE KEPT UP AT ALL COST. It was - and the cost was high indeed. For every ape smuggled onto the Rock by Franco's soldiery, the British handed over...
Bishops from Spain, Poland and Italy argued that the draft of the chapter on Mary was too timid and should include a new title of praise for the Virgin, such as "Mediatrix" between man and God. Some Latin American prelates warned that current excesses of devotion to Mary were a scandal to those outside the church and tended to obscure Christ's unique mediation with God. Mexican Bishop Sergio Mendez Arceo dryly pointed out that if Mary were to be titled "Mother of the Church," which is the mother of men, she becomes everybody's grandmother. And Augustin...