Word: spent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the government insists that the $12 million spent on the Valley came mostly from voluntary gifts, Spaniards know better. Shopkeepers complain that government collectors had told them either to put up or shut down. Other Spaniards, traveling the nearby highway, grumbled about the tunnel five miles from the Valley that never got built; it was supposed to replace the treacherous mountain pass on which dozens of motorists lose their lives each year. While the big monument had all the men and machines it needed, nothing was available for the tunnel...
...planter's son on a $500,000 sugar plantation at Mayari, 50 miles from Santiago. He was in love with guns from the time he fired his first .22, hunting in the mountains where he would one day return, an outlaw. From the age of eight he spent most of his time at a Roman Catholic boarding school in Santiago ; his younger brother Raul, a quarrelsome, envious youngster of five, tagged along. "For the next eleven years," a priest recalls, "we Jesuits had Fidel...
Castro went to Mexico to recruit men and money. One summer evening in 1956, he stole across the Rio Grande near McAllen, Texas. Castro spent the next day in McAllen's Casa de Palmas Hotel with the richest Batista-hater of all: ex-President Carlos Prío Socarrás, 55, who had been bounced from office by the dictator's coup eight months before his term was up and began plotting so persistently that he is still under U.S. indictment for violating the Neutrality Act. "Here was the timber of a hero," said Pro. As President...
...added that Yale means a great deal to New Haven," in dollars and cents alone," citing a $26 million payroll, money spent by the student body, and purchases by the many people attracted to New Haven by Yale...
...almost imagines himself in Jivarro territory. Books on sex habits of the Mayas are alternated with relics of pre-Columban civilizations. Bamboo furniture decorates his office in Widener 5000. Quaeritor got a Harvard Scholarship, the regional jungle grant, and came to Harvard in 1912. Since then he has spent his life commuting between Cambridge and his beloved jungle...