Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years it had had 45 governments, some lasting only days. As Premier after 1932, Salazar squashed partisan quarreling with dictatorial measures and brought order to the economy by applying conservative, pre-Keynesian fiscal policies. By the late 1930s, he was flirting openly with fascism. He backed Franco against the Spanish Republicans. While Portugal remained neutral in World War II, Salazar at first sympathized with the Axis; when it became clear that that was the losing side, he granted bases in the strategically located Azores Islands to the U.S. and Britain...
Next month's Olympic games are the first to be held in a Spanish-speaking country, the first in Latin America, and the first in a developing nation. They are also Mexico's first big opportunity to put its stable prosperity on inter national display. A two-month-old strike by Mexico's normally docile university students is threatening to spoil that triumph. Last week President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz ordered the army to end the strike by taking over the National University campus on the outskirts of Mexico City...
...problem was that his vocal solos were overshadowed by his own accompaniments. He won applause for the dextrous way that he applied blues and a beat to the delicate lines of traditional Spanish guitar. But his high, quavery tenor, though obviously brimming with feeling, was merely good; it had too much of other singers in it and too little of Feliciano. So Jose spent some lean years in search not only of exposure but also of an identity...
Last year he found both. After triumphing at a festival in Argentina, he made Spanish-language records that boosted him into prominence all across the continent. And the renewed contact with his musical roots enabled him to settle at last into his characteristic, soulful Latin sound...
...decrease in the intermediate language course enrollment--in French, Spanish, and Italian C--similarly reflects the new requirements, Dwight Bollinger, Coordinator of Language Instruction for the department of Romance Languages and Literature, said yesterday. He called an apparent rise in the number of beginning French, Spanish, and Italian students the result of freshmen being required to take a language during their first year...