Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Going a step beyond charity, the 12th century Spanish-Jewish philosopher, Maimonides, urged the well to do to "assist the reduced fellow by teaching him a trade or putting him in the way of business so that he may earn an honest livelihood." Queen Elizabeth I came to believe that care of the poor is not the duty of just the rich or the church but also of the state. "Paupers are everywhere!" she cried after a tour of England, and her Parliament sped up passage of its poor-relief acts. Just about then, Calvin declared that idleness...
Mercenary Commander Mike Hoare has been ordered to attack Fizi as soon as he has trained his latest batch of white recruits, but it will be no easy task. Advised by a dozen Castro Cubans (who carry Spanish-Swahili dictionaries), the rebels have turned the Fizi region into a fortress of sorts. They are well equipped. Their every need is supplied by a fleet of rebel-operated "fishing" boats-which make regular runs across Lake Tanganyika between Fizi and Kigoma...
...Sorry, lady," said the guard outside the U.S. Air Force PX in Madrid. "The rule says no slacks allowed." The rule had been imposed in deference to Spanish propriety on orders from the commander of the U.S. Military Mission, Major General Stanley Donovan. Clad in grey flannel slacks, the lady, Mrs. Angier Biddle Duke, wife of the U.S. ambassador, and a priestess of high fashion in Washington when her husband was the State Department's Chief of Protocol, sheepishly stepped aside and let Mrs. Donovan herself-clad in the regulation skirt-go in to buy the golf balls they...
...Last week, in one of the strongest exchanges of views since the council began, three U.S. cardinals?Gushing of Boston, Spellman of New York, Ritter of St. Louis?were among the prelates who defended the declaration, while Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, secretary of the Holy Office, headed the ranks of Spanish and Italian prelates who denounced it as "totally unacceptable...
...idea when he discovered that many U.S. customers were anxious to advertise in foreign directories, but that most government-owned telephone companies abroad would not accept their advertising. With three friends, Nellson raised $690,000, designed a hard-cover multilingual book in which listings are printed in English, French, Spanish and German, found agents abroad to check out telephone listings and sell advertising space, which costs $1,200 a page. Revenues from the third edition have already reached $475,000, helped by a 30% rise in advertising by companies behind the Iron Curtain. The new edition pushes Nellson...