Word: spaniards
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Only a few wondered if Europe's gain might be short-lived, or illusory, in the indivisible struggle against Communism everywhere. "He was muy macho" (a brave fellow), shrugged a Spaniard. "He won a war of guns and lost a war of words." "A whipping boy for many grievances," admitted the London Economist, which had done its bit in the anti-MacArthur chorus. The Athens Kathimerini editorialized: "The sacking of an American military leader as a sacrifice-for the British lion does not bring about unity." Hardheaded Turks talked about an Asian Munich...
...boiling pot will blow its lid off if it is too tight," said a Spaniard explaining Barcelona's recent cost-of-living strike riots (TIME, March 19). Last week the lid was tightly clamped back on Barcelona...
...finest autobiographies of the '40s was Spaniard Arturo Barea's The Forging of a Rebel (TIME...
...Communist lawyers were livid. One shouted: "It's unbelievable. Here is the Soviet Union tried by a Spaniard. An unheard-of shame" The court ordered him ousted. Another Red lawyer resorted to smearing...
...Spaniard last week contemplated the doings of Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, India's Prime Minister, and drew a fetching analogy. "When a torero and a toro are in the ring," explained the Spaniard, "sometimes somebody from the audience will jump into the ring with a homemade muleta-which up to that moment he had hidden in his pants-wave the cloth at the bull and try to take over the fight. We call him an espontdneo (spontaneous one), and we jail him: he spoils the fiesta and dangerously distracts the torero. Nehru looks like an international espont...