Word: spaniard
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...plucky Spaniard could hardly care less what Moscow thinks, since the Kremlin has already tried to kick him out as party chief. Both for political and personal reasons, Carrillo wanted a strong joint declaration condemning the treatment of dissidents in the Soviet bloc. A plea to legalize the Communist Party is now before the Spanish Supreme Court, and the decision hinges on the court's finding of whether or not the party "submits to an international discipline" and "proposes to establish a totalitarian system." The joint declaration called for by Carrillo would have reinforced the party's claim...
Those words proved especially relevant to the 1976 British Open from its opening round last Wednesday up to the 72nd and final hole, as unheralded 19 year old Spaniard Severiano Ballesteros upstaged the international field to finish tied for second only after succumbing to a withering closing round of 66 fired by America's Johnny Miller...
Palmer's decisive victory revived American enthusiasm and restored the British Open to its exalted present day position as the major golf championship that is truly "open to all the world." Last week's event won by America's top pro of the next generation followed by an unvaunted Spaniard once again demonstrated the universal appeal of the world's oldest Open...
...slender cones of carrots occupying space like Renaissance mathematical models. At the same time, the darkness (coupled with the close focus) gives the objects a painful density. The hanging lemon seems ready to explode. One will see few still-lifes like this until the 20th century, when another Spaniard-Picasso-would give their components a similar energy, distinctness and isolation...
Legend Confirmed. "The greatest event since the creation of the world, excepting the Incarnation and Death of Him who created it." That sounds like Richard Nixon's blurt on the Apollo 11 moon landing, but it was written in the 16th century by a Spaniard named Lopez de Gomara, after men knew Christopher Columbus had found not Cathay but a wholly new "fourth part of the earth." For centuries, fabled islands populated by demigods, monsters or Arcadians had been part of the imagery of European legend, and the discovery of the South American Indian-lolling in a hammock, innocent...