Word: tola
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roosevelt Story (Tola), culled from 2,000,000 feet of documentary film, is a kind of cinematic Ode on the Death of a Hero. Its story is told through the voices and memories of mourners who watched Franklin Roosevelt's funeral cortege in Washington. Mainly the screen is occupied by mfovie portraits of the late President, from the earliest to the last that were made. Several digressions describe the big depression, the distastrous dust storms of the middle '303, the building of Norris Dam, etc. The most striking digression traces the U.S. campaign in Europe, from the invasion...
Actually, Mr. Parish's position is not so toploftical as that. What he really yearns for is a compromise already offered by his company: a long-term operating contract for the companies, after which the properties would revert in tola to Mexico. Failing that, he would rather preserve his principles and his face than accept a token payment...
Biggest Catch of all were copies of a Nazi manifesto, so inflammatory that authorities no longer described the suspects vaguely as fifth columnists (as such liable only to deportation) but as outright traitors involved in un caso de pis tola (a case for summary execution...