Word: spaniard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Here is no entrance except for friends," wrote one historian of the forbidding little (1.6 sq. mi.) island of Lundy. Rising like a granite fang out of the churning waters off the coast of Devon, the "isle of Puffins" has survived assault by the Spaniard, the Turk, the Frenchman and the Dutchman. But in all the 800 years since the King of England gave it over to one of his favorite barons, it has bowed to no nation for long-not even to its great neighbor, Britain...
...that mars the duels for aficionados; in 1947, it was Dominguin, then 21, who taunted the peerless Manolete out of retirement, forced him to such daring that he was finally killed by a giant Miura bull. Watching the two matadors, still aching from their half-healed wounds, many a Spaniard wonders if Dominguin or Ordoñez will yet risk too much in defense of art and honor...
...grind that only 65 of the 120 starters, Europe's best bicycle racers, were able to finish, and at the end of 24 days and 2,680 miles of plain and mountain, the victory in the 46th annual Tour de France went to an iron-legged, 137-lb. Spaniard named Federico Baha-montes, 31, who had never before won a major international bike race...
...reinforced concrete, many a modern architect is turning back to study the work of the handful of pioneers who blazed the way for modern shell structures. One of the foremost and least known is Engineer Eduardo Torroja y Miret, 59. A short (5 ft. 4½ in.), bald-domed Spaniard, Torroja was throwing wafer-thin slabs of concrete up into space as early as 1933. His race-track stands, soccer stadiums, marketplaces, churches and aqueducts are only now getting the recognition they deserve as ancestors of some of today's most spectacular engineering feats...
...Protestants are free to carry out their simple services unmolested. Pastors speak their minds from their pulpits without fear that there are police observers in the congregation. "Of course not," quipped one nonchurchgoing Spaniard last week. "The police are afraid to send observers into the Protestant churches. They might be converted...