Word: dominican
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...arrived in the U.S. in 1950 and quickly gained control of more than a dozen companies, including a brokerage firm, electronics and real estate interests, and the Mutual Broadcasting System. Guterma was convicted in 1960 of fraud, conspiracy and failing to register as an agent of Dominican Dictator Rafael Trujillo, who gave him $750,000 to churn out propaganda in the U.S. After 3½ years in jail, he amassed a second empire in cosmetics, real estate and a Kentucky coal company...
Guiseppe Santa Maria dismantled the Crimson single-handedly throughout the middle chukkers, scoring seven goals. "He's the best player we've seen so far," Tanner said of the star from Bagota, Dominican Republic. "He's elusive, hard to keep up with and hard to hook," Tanner added...
...because of Bond's endorsement of an anti-Viet Nam War statement by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The majority opinion branded the SNCC statement "a call to action based on race ... It aligns the civil rights organization with 'colored people in such other countries as the Dominican Republic, the Congo, South America and Rhodesia...
...Very often the poor remain poor. But there are differences nonetheless. On a small brass strip on a door in Brooklyn's sweltering Keap Street, the inscription says: Diós bendiga nuestro hogar (God Bless our Home). On each side of the inscription there is a tiny enameled flag, Dominican on the left, American on the right. Near by is a name plate that says: Familia Ortega. In the five rooms inside live Erasmo Ortega, 52, and his wife Eloina, 45, and seven of their eight children (a married daughter lives upstairs). Also a three-year-old orphaned nephew whom...
...children, says Eloina, that they left the Dominican Republic. "The political situation at home was bad. The people were treated bad. We asked ourselves, 'How can we earn enough to feed ourselves? How can we raise our children?' " Erasmo was the first to emigrate, sponsored by a sister. He got a job washing dishes for $75 a week, paid his sister $10 for room and board, and saved the rest. In three years he had enough to send for Eloina, and she got a job as a sewing-machine operator. In another three years they sent for their four oldest...