Word: romero
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the Salvadoran rebels nursed their wounds. They admired the ideals of their leader, young Doctor Arturo Romero, but regretted his lack of military experience. Dictator Aguirre's threats of "dangerous consequences" to Guatemala for harboring Salvadoran rebels frightened that country's Revolutionary Junta into talking of a Mexican-Guatemalan-Costa Rican alliance against the dictators. The rest of Central America continued to strain and heave...
...that the people might have a little time to learn, the presidential elections were scheduled for next January. Leading candidate for the presidency: Dr. Arturo Romero, gravely wounded hero of the revolution, who has been in New York for medical treatment. Tall, good-looking, 33-year-old Dr. Romero is a gentle idealist who nevertheless makes sense. If he wins the presidency, he can thank General Menéndez, the "loyal soldier...
Most likely candidate for the presidency in the coming elections is Dr. Arturo Romero, who was wounded in last month's abortive revolt. A psychiatrist, he had studied the terrible Dictator as a psychiatric case...
...days. Great fires spread in the city (casualties included the local office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs). Then the rebels fled, or were killed or captured. Their airplanes ran out of gas or flew off to Honduras. Colonel Tito Calvo was reportedly captured and shot. Dr. Arturo Romero, Paris trained skin specialist and civilian leader of the revolt, may have found sanctuary in the Mexican Embassy...
Jack Oakie and Cezar Romero try desperately to be funny but don't get far. Their nearest approach was a series of scenes in which Romero, clad sedately in a set of long woolen drawers, gallops madly through the hotel. Not especially subtle, but the audience appeared to be amused...