Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caudillo should be given his due. Spain is orderly and there is relatively little crime-thanks to police in overwhelming numbers and varieties. In recent months there have been fewer political arrests and no political executions. The Falange is currently on the wane-to the gratitude of every Spaniard except the Falangists. There has been a certain mellowing over the years; individuals may criticize discreetly, although the newspapers are still government-cast stereotypes...
...that U.S. fighters indulge in, Marcel's manager would hold up his hands, palms held outward, and let Marcel punch at them. Marcel trained like that when the Germans in occupied France ordered him to fight José Ferrer,* the Spanish champion, in 1942. He knocked out the Spaniard in 82 seconds, shortly afterward turned up in North Africa and joined the Free French navy. Among Marcel Cerdan's 96 victories (against two defeats, no knockouts), was an easy triumph in the Inter-Allied boxing championships in Italy two years...
...Remember, my generals," he concluded "that José Antonio [son of Dictator Primo Rivera] was right when he said 'one of the most serious things in the world today is being a Spaniard...
...Silverio Perez took his bull with almost equal skill, got as great an ovation. Determined to outdo Silverio, the visitor from Spain returned to the ring. When Manolete tried a lance (pass with the cape), the bull evaded the cape, drove a horn deep into the Spaniard's left thigh...
Epstein says modeling is "the creating of something out of nothing. An actual building up and getting to grips with the material." Famed Fellow-Sculptor Jose de Creeft, a 60-year-old Spaniard who has lived in the U.S. since 1928, says scornfully that modelers work with "just...