Word: dos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bestseller about a clerical Organization Man called The Cardinal, knows that his costume throbbers are nonsense. Unlike Taylor Caldwell, for instance, who writes the same sort of novel with more earnestness and less skill, he stops every few chapters and snickers at himself with a pun or a Dos Passosian aside. And if the reader celebrates each such instance by pouring himself three fingers of pot still whisky, he will reach page 621 handily...
...devoured the standard works of the intellectual left-but did not neglect studying oil trade magazines from the U.S. Suddenly Betancourt decided he was a Communist. Today, irritated at the endless necessity of telling why, he explains somewhat vaguely: "It was the era of radicalism. Sinclair Lewis. Dreiser. John Dos Passes. In Costa Rica we formed a group. We called it the Worker and Peasant Bloc." When Gómez died, in 1935, Betancourt headed home with Carmen as his wife and left Communism behind...
...I.N.R.A. officials last October that he had no intention of giving plots of land to peasants, planned to keep it instead in state-run cooperative farms. Artime also said he was sick of hearing "youth brigades" chanting their military drill cadence count outside his window every evening:" Uno-dos-tres-cuatro- viva-Fidel-Castro...