Word: esteban
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...posts blocking the front door. Another pair strode across the tiled floor to block a back exit. Four others herded twelve bank employees and four customers into a patio in the rear, while the gang leader and an aide went to the office of the bank's manager, Esteban Juncadella. He found him chatting with, of all people, a sub-inspector of the Bureau of Theft of the secret police...
...Esteban Franco...
Spaniards are referring to Franco as "Esteban" these days; when you ask them why, they look around furtively and explain gleefully: "Que se marche este bandido!" ["May this bandit get the hell...
...Topaze labeled President Juan Esteban Montero "One-Step" (roughly the way Juan Esteban sounds in Spanish when correctly pronounced). The nickname stuck, the Montero dignity was ruined. He was ultimately ousted. The idea was much the same as if President Roosevelt became known as "Frankly Dull...
...Esteban Valderrama, 47, director of a Cuban art school, leading portrait painter of Havana, this winter was commissioned by the Cuban Senate to paint a portrait of President Roosevelt. A great admirer of President Roosevelt is thin, excitable Dr. Valderrama. He hopes that when his portrait is hung in the Cuban Senate it.will be inscribed "President Franklin D. Roosevelt-Author of the Doctrine Good Neighbor." Painter of many a Cuban notable, Dr. Valderrama has developed a theory that every man has his special color, thinks the color of heavy-featured Cuban President Laredo Bru is pálido (pale...