Word: spaniards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...Louis Lopez-Cepero as Don Armado, the fantastical and grossly grandiloquent Spaniard, and and Bruce Kornbluth as Moth, his diminutive page deliver some of the play's funniest lines with well timed over and understatements...
From the first heartthrob, it's been a mess, but this week the issue will be settled. The Netherlands' Princess Irene, 24, will marry her Spaniard, Prince Carlos de Borbón y Parma, 34, "in Rome on neutral territory, thus avoiding any accusations of political intention." Irene's mother, Queen Juliana, nonetheless announced that neither she nor any of the royal family would attend the wedding for fear of lending impetus to Carlos' bid for the currently nonexistent Spanish throne. Nothing daunted, Carlos' family moved the ceremony from a chapel to a larger church...