Word: spaniard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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However, Franco is also a patriotic Spaniard who does not always put the interests of his Falange Party first. The Falange, which is the worst element in present Spanish politics, lost ground in the cabinet shakeup. The army held its ground. Monarchists (meaning, in Spain, conservatives who deplore much in the Franco regime) got nine out of 16 cabinet seats, a gain of three. There was serious talk that Franco might put young (13-year-old) Juan Carlos, son of the Pretender Don Juan, on the throne...
...year-old patriarch of Spanish art critics limped scornfully out of Madrid's baroque Crystal Palace. What shocked him, and many another Spaniard, was an exhibit of religious art from Roman Catholic mission fields. Traditionalist Spaniards looked with anger upon the freedom with which the faraway artists had rendered scantily clad Virgins, Chinese Holy Families, Indian Gods squatting Buddha-like-all dominated by a huge statue of Christ dressed as a sannyasi (Hindu ascetic) renouncing this world...
...York police commissioner, to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy ("The Secretary is away, and I am having immense fun running the Navy"), to go to Cuba in the Spanish-American War and lead the Rough Riders at San Juan Hill ("By the way, I then killed a Spaniard myself with the pistol . . . which was raked up from the Maine"), to return to the U.S. as a military hero and, finally, at the ripe old age of 40, to be elected governor of New York. ("Some belated Fenians came up to sound me as to what my attitude would...
Only a few wondered if Europe's gain might be short-lived, or illusory, in the indivisible struggle against Communism everywhere. "He was muy macho" (a brave fellow), shrugged a Spaniard. "He won a war of guns and lost a war of words." "A whipping boy for many grievances," admitted the London Economist, which had done its bit in the anti-MacArthur chorus. The Athens Kathimerini editorialized: "The sacking of an American military leader as a sacrifice-for the British lion does not bring about unity." Hardheaded Turks talked about an Asian Munich...
...boiling pot will blow its lid off if it is too tight," said a Spaniard explaining Barcelona's recent cost-of-living strike riots (TIME, March 19). Last week the lid was tightly clamped back on Barcelona...