Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Provisionally, the Spanish magistrate charged with investigating the death settled on the most innocent explanation: Maxwell died of natural causes, probably suffering a heart attack before he fell overboard. Since he was found floating (a drowned body normally takes about three days to surface), that theory is not without merit. Most likely, no one will ever know the full story behind Maxwell's death...
Alarcon delivered a long speech in Spanish, but used English in quoting from State Department guidelines to diplomats for the intensive U.S. lobbying against the Cuban resolution...
...Haakon and the Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina gave their occupied countries an additional symbol of resistance. In Spain the modern monarchy's services to the constitution have been more than symbolic. In 1981, when gun-toting, right-wing officers seized parliament and held it hostage, King Juan Carlos went on Spanish television in full uniform and used his royal prestige to rally the army around the constitution. Boris Yeltsin isn't the only living leader to have quashed a coup...
...explains, "the quiet, well-dressed, manicured, well-groomed, somewhat anal-retentive overachiever who is ready to enter the job market at the drop of a dollar." The sketch takes a slapstick twist when the Crossover King, suffering a relapse into his Latin self, suddenly starts dancing and shouting Spanish phrases...
Beginnings of Spanish Rule in America: Columbus' Viceroyalty-with Juan Gil, historian with the University of Seville in Spain. In room 2 at Coolidge Hall at noon...