Word: rafael
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...starred gold license plates stepped a beady-eyed little man. Bodyguards with their Tommy guns at the ready followed him to his customary concrete bench against the sea wall. There, opposite the statue of himself and within sight of the monument reared in his honor, His Excellency, Generalissimo Dr. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina, Honorable Chief of State, Benefactor of the Nation, President and Dictator of the Dominican Republic, held his nightly court, with his favorites clustered around...
...Hell, no, that's the wrong idea!" boomed Rafael Cheviot Schmegegghi, professor of Obstetrics, when he heard that the phenomenon was to take place at the beginning of the Jubilee weekend...
...well-trained troops, Smith probably had the edge, for his most effective fighters included a case-hardened cavalry division and contingents of marines. Smith's opposite number in the rebel camp was tantalum-tough, moonfaced ex-President Rafael Franco, leader of the vaguely leftist Febrerista Party...
...Make no mistake about it, this bureau could hardly get along without Rafael Delgado Lozano...
...especially that to U.S. bureau-men working in foreign countries like Mexico, where it can take three weeks of notarizing & counter-notarizing, witnessing & counter-witnessing just to rent a safe deposit box-but not with Rafael Delgado Lozano around. Rafael, known colloquially as Ralph, on 24 hours notice once arranged to have three divisions of the Mexican Army turned out to parade before the cameras of a MARCH OF TIME unit. That was a major miracle. He performs minor ones almost daily, disappearing into the jungles of official red tape to emerge with just the document a harried correspondent needs...