Word: venezuelan
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...harbor of Puerto Cabello, Venezuela, four tankers, three of them Italian and one German, burst into flame before Venezuelan officials could seize them. Three other Italian ships were boarded and seized. As the tankers blazed offshore, threatening the oil-soaked docks, angry crowds rushed from the harbor to the center of town, set fire to the German-owned Gambrinus Hotel...
...shirt can neither hide nor retreat").* General Garibaldi resents being called a soldier of fortune, explains that the only time he ever fought against his convictions was in the Boer War, when he joined a mounted column under Kitchener. At 23 he was leading 3,000 Venezuelan rebels against Dictator Cipriano Castro, held the title of Citizen-Colonel-&-Commander -of -the -Artillery -of -the -Army-of-the-Orient. Faced with mutiny, he shot every tenth man in one company...
...virtually elected Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson to the Presidency. Secretary of State John Hay forever claimed that his hands were tied by bitter Irish anti-British sentiment, and it was the Irish voter who not only forced Cleveland to take a strong stand against Great Britain in the Venezuelan crisis of 1895-96 but who also helped to prevent a U. S.-British alliance in the Far East...
...recommendation of chunky, art-patting Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, who is not only president of Manhattan's lively Museum of Modern Art but a director of Creole Petroleum Corp., one of Standard's Venezuelan subsidiaries, Standard Oil last summer sent Artist Bennett to Venezuela. Bennett's commission was to paint whatever struck his fancy. Plenty did, from golf courses to jungle camps. So pleased with his adroit jottings are Sponsors Rockefeller and Standard Oil that his water colors will be sent on a year's tour...
...favorite Venezuelan hosts was eccentric Painter Hernandez Reveron, who paints almost entirely in various tones of white. Artist Reveron first tests the tightness of his canvas by "getting the feel of the tension," next tightens the belt of his burlap shorts, the straps of his sandals and his arm muscles to the same degree. When all the tensions are equal, he attacks the canvas like a tiger. After four hours' work, he is so exhausted that he must go down to the beach, swim out and gulp sea water...