Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...When the final curtain fell, applause rang out loud & long. From the spectators a voice called: "Garcia Lorca!" In response, the curtain rose on an empty stage. Everyone understood, and cheered...
Next morning Da Quinto and Gordon pleaded with the censor. "This means." they said, "a final blow to the theater in Spain." Shamefaced Censor Garcia Espina shrugged. "I'm just as sorry as you are," he said. "But orders are orders. You think I'm the boss, but I'm just an egg between two stones." Mumbled Da Quinto: "The Bernardas of Spain have the last word. The window is closed once more...
...year's uprising promised the country popular elections. Unlike some other rulers (notably Venezuela's and Peru's), the Salvadoran bosses kept their promise. This week, in its first democratic election in almost 20 years, the tiny republic voted for a new President and Congress. Though final results might not be known for a month, short, fat Major Oscar Osorio, 39, was almost certain to win the presidency. Osorio's middle-of-the-road Partido Revolucionario de Unificación Democrática (PRUD) was likely to gain most of the congressional seats...
...then the two were out in front all alone, Brawner making up the gap in inch-long takes. Thirty yards from the finish, Brawner caught his rival; as they hit the final turn Brawner had a finger-length edge. Verdeur had nothing left to match his rival's closing drive, lost by four feet. The time was 2:14.3-four-tenths of a second under the official world's record, but not close to Brawner's best time (2:13.1) of the year...
That was all it took. Heading into the final jumps, only 14 riders had survived the thick, thorny hedges and treacherous water jumps. In the lead was Cloncarrig, a rangy, brown, 33-to-1 shot. When Cloncarrig crashed into the next-to-last barrier, Freebooter pounded on to win by 15 lengths. Fifth of the only seven to finish officially was Monaveen...