Word: suing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brains in Spain stay mainly on the plain of honorable cheating in the universities. Cheating on exams, nearly universal there, becomes dishonorable only when the cheater gets caught. Few realized how great a premium this risk placed on student ingenuity, however, until last month, when waggish José Antonio Suárez, the students' cultural-activities boss at the University of Barcelona, organized a public exhibition of chuletas. A chuleta (literally, cutlet) is academic slang for a crib note or, by extension, any cribbing device. Opposed by the University of Barcelona's brass, Suárez went ahead...
...Work of Handicraft. Divided into classical and modern sections, the show opened with 25 exhibits, drew hordes of admiring students and scores of professors who were torn by mixed emotions. In Suárez' opinion, the modern section was a bit of a flop: "A chuleta, to be worthy, must bear the imprint of the student's personality and be a work of Spanish handicraft...
...amico, per exemplo, pagava su via al scola...
...plotted against Batista in the '30s and early '40s, then became government-coddled racketeers under Batista's successors. Last week, tipped off that El Colorado was up to his old conspiratorial tricks, the cops swooped down on his hiding place in the suburb of Santos Suárez, killed him and one of his henchmen. On the premises the raiders found 70 submachine guns, 40 rifles, scores of pistols-a sizable arsenal for a man to have lying around the house, even in Cuba...
Among those from Latin America who will talk are: Carlos Dávila, Secretary-General of the Organization of American States; Martín del Corral, director of the Banco de la República; Eduardo Suárez, former Secretary of Finance of Mexico; and Luis Roberto Vidigal, president of the Chamber of Commerce of the state of São Paulo...