Word: spain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Plaza Mayor one day last week and, with a lusty cheer, sent two homemade rockets sizzling into the sky. While police unsuccessfully pursued them, their rockets exploded into a shower of paper flags, each bearing the red field and two green crosses of Euzkadi, the homeland of the Basques. Spain's Basque Separatists are once more up to their old habits of derring-do. In recent weeks they have also planted their outlawed flag on a mountaintop in upper Navarra, ingeniously substituted it for the Spanish flag at a civil ceremony in San Sebastián. Police throughout northern...
Despite such comic-opera feats, the cause that the Basque troublemakers are trying to promote-an independent Basque nation-is rapidly dying in Spain. The Basques, once thought of as an exotic race of faithful shepherds living in the remote fastnesses of the Pyrenees, bearing such unpronounceable names as Zugazagoitia and speaking a totally incomprehensible tongue, no longer conform to their old image. From Urzaingui to Munguia, they have taken up Spanish in place of their own archaic language-an agglutinated monstrosity that, according to Basque legend, even the Devil could not learn: in seven years of trying, he mastered...
...from being isolated, the Basque country has boomed into Spain's most dynamic industrial area and one of its most prosperous. San Sebastián (pop. 149,000) is the nation's summer capital and most fashionable resort, boasts the highest per capita spending rate in all of Spain. Bilbao (pop. 357,000) is a throbbing city of steel mills and shipyards, whose skies are darkened by factory smoke by day and glow with the fires of blast furnaces by night. It is also Spain's banking capital, the headquarters of two of Spain's five...
...that freedom of the press in Spain is still a sometime thing, despite the passage last year of a law abolishing a considerable amount of censorship...
Yellow and brown mixed into a miscegenated map of Spain. And one tough English...