Word: tula
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tula, feelingly adapted from a novel by Spain's passionate Writer-Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno (who died in 1936), is an austere and chilling portrait of virginity Castilian-style...
Sexually repressed, still beautiful and inflexibly virtuous, Tula (Aurora Bautista) becomes a spinsterish "Aunt Tula" to her dead sister's small son and daughter. As decreed by custom in a stifling provincial town, she takes the bereft children and her handsome brother-in-law Ramiro (Carlos Estrada) under her roof. She rejects another suitor to fulfill what she sees as her duty, but cannot admit that Ramiro attracts her. Secretly she pores, moist-lipped and breathless, over a packet of impulsive love letters he wrote to her sister years earlier, yet is offended when the man himself appears...
...synthetic rubber from its big Ravenna petrochemical plant went to Russia last year, and so did a wide assortment of its pumps, compressors and other machines. In a little-publicized deal, E.N.I, has also designed and is equipping a combined ammonia-methanol plant in Tula, an industrial town near Moscow...
...five-week trial dragged on, one of the defendants, Nigerian Immigrant Malam Mama Tula, 44, testified that the real brains behind the Kulungugu attempt were three men who had been Nkrumah's closest cronies, ex-Foreign Minister Ako Adjei, ex-Information Minister Tawia Adamafio, and H. H. Cofie-Crabbe, former executive secretary of Nkrumah's own Convention People's Party. Mama Tula said that the trio conferred with the bomb throwers at a village hideout, supplied eight British-made grenades and promised a $560 bounty if Nkrumah was killed. The three have been in prison under...
...four other treason defend ants beside Mama Tula in the dock, Teiko Tagoe, 20, readily admitted to possession of a live hand grenade at a meeting of Nkrumah's party last January. Another, Joseph Quaye Mensah, 57, owned up to mailing the Redeemer an anonymous letter warning, "Dear Dr., This is to inform you I am still chasing you until I ... have you killed," but pleaded that he was only trying to scare Nkrumah. When the testimony ended, the three white-wigged judges filed out, spent another two weeks preparing a 6,000-word decision. When they returned last...