Word: fern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Within this special relationship, the Puerto Rican constitution makers have had a wonderful time writing their home-rule charter. Elected delegates headed by Resident Commissioner of Puerto Rico, Antonio Fernós-Isern, conned every line of the U.S. Constitution and the 48 state charters. With such expert constitutionalists as Harvard's Carl Friedrich on hand to advise on sticky points, they wrote draft after draft, debating each clause like so many tropical Madisons and Hamiltons. Their bill of rights, written under the guidance of University Rector Jaime Benitez, is their special pride & joy. Revising Thomas Jefferson, it proclaims...
Soon afterward, Batista married his present wife, Marta Fernández. The President had literally run into her with his car a few years earlier while she was riding a bicycle down Fifth Avenue in Havana's swank Miramar district. She has borne Batista three children. He also had three children by his first wife...
...last week, a hunting party of five men sloshed through the rain-soaked woods of Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia with their two Little River duck dogs, Dusty and Tootsie. At the rocky shore of Lake Mestock the party divided, settled down to wait in their spruce and fern blinds on opposite sides of the lake. They didn't have to wait long. Just after 8 o'clock a flock of nearly 200 ducks circled over the lake and landed on the water some 1,000 yards off the west shore...
...young man who felt the lure was Fernão Mendes Pinto, son of a down-at-heel nobleman. He resolved to join the army and, once in the East, switch to trading. In 1537, at the age of 28, he sailed for Goa, Portugal's main outpost in India. Before he saw Portugal again, he was to visit all the lands of Asia, to be a merchant, a pirate, a slave, an ambassador and a Jesuit novice...
...manuscript of his adventures. It was never published in his lifetime, but he had official recognition of a sort anyway. In 1583, in his 74th year, the Portuguese government awarded him a pension of two hogsheads of corn annually "for his services in India." Four months later, Fernão Mendes Pinto was dead...