Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...growing it because the crop had lost its religious importance. An instructor watched helplessly while typewriters distributed in Ethiopia turned to junk for lack of care. Language training for the corpsmen was once squeezed into 50 hours, and one slum worker in a Chilean callampa did not have enough Spanish to ask how to get to the bus that would take him to work. "At times they miss the mark," Vaughn confesses. "And when they do, it's certain we helped them miss...
...widespread "Yankee economic imperialism" in Guatemala, focusing-if sometimes too polemically -on the growth and power of the United Fruit Co. Last week Asturias was busy on his eighth and ninth novels, one biographical and the other a dreamlike fantasy set in 16th and 17th century Guatemala during the Spanish conquest...
McNamara's reorganization would go a long way toward improving the Guard's readiness for foreign emergencies. It would not, of course, cut to the heart of the question: state control. In 1903, after disastrous results with the militia in the Spanish-American War, Secretary of War Elihu Root vainly sought to eliminate the states' role and create a reserve of militiamen controlled entirely by the Federal Government. In 1948, a Defense Department committee under Assistant Secretary (and later Secretary) of the Army Gordon Gray urged much the same. There is much to be said for this...
...union's argument, he said, "is specious and sham." The son of Spanish immigrants who learned his respect for the law while working in the fish markets by day and law school by night, Nunez concluded his lecture to the teachers with a stern stricture: "Law means nothing unless it means the same law for all. This strike against the public was a rebellion against the Government; if permitted to succeed, it could eventually destroy Government with resultant anarchy and chaos...
Around town, Sellers earns the sudden sobriquet of "Bobo"-Spanish for fool. After all, has not Eklund newly milked one victim for a luxurious pad and bilked another out of a Maserati...