Word: spaniard
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...thought of how swiftly time has flown since he first arrived, a bedazzled Russian Jew, to greet Paris a full half-century ago. Of the pre-World War I luminaries that were then his contemporaries-the Frenchmen Braque, Matisse, Léger, Rouault, Delaunay, Villon, the Spaniard Juan Gris, the Rumanian Sculptor Brancusi, the Italian Modigliani, the Russians Kandinsky and Soutine-only Picasso, now 83, remains of those who gave the School of Paris its start. Of the two principal survivors, Picasso is the most protean and cerebral, Chagall the most constant champion of the heart...
...aching spinster realizes too late that a Spaniard's flesh-and-blood instincts are his surest defense against omnipresent death. Ready at last to welcome Ramiro's attentions, Tula learns that during a holiday visit to a neighboring village, he seduced her nubile cousin and now must marry the girl. She turns on Ramiro in black Spanish fury, maddened for the moment by the realization that unyielding virtue has robbed her of love, husband, children...
...sixth Spaniard to head the Jesuits, Arrupe was born in Bilbao, studied medicine at the University of Madrid, and entered the Jesuit order in 1927. Five years later, despite the careful neutrality of men like Arrupe, the Spanish Republic banned Jesuits from the country. Arrupe went to Belgium to continue his schooling, then Holland, later came to the U.S., where he studied at St. Mary's College in Kansas and St. Stanislaus' in Cleveland...
...Isthmus of Panama, and from the Isthmus to Madrid-and tore at it like a tiger. In his most famous exploit, Drake sailed up the west coast of South America, sacking the Spanish seaports as he passed. At Tarapaza, "being landed, we found by the Sea side a Spaniard lying asleepe, who had lying by him 13. barres of silver; we tooke the silver, and left the man." Off Colombia he seized a Spanish galleon glutted with some 30 tons of treasure, casually allowed that he was "sufficiently satisfied," and then headed home by way of the Moluccas...
...Spaniard, his ilusión gives the world its glow and life its fragrance...