20 December 2014

palabra

[pah-lah-vrah]

noun, plural palabras [pah-lah-vrahs] Spanish.

1. a word.
2. speech; talk.

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Examples
To conquer or die is no theatrical palabra, in these circumstances, but a practical truth and necessity. — Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, 1837

Origin
Palabra came to English from Spanish in the early 1600s.

Anagram

a bar pal

Today’s aphorism

Some people think that the truth can be hidden with a little cover-up and decoration. But as time goes by, what is true is revealed, and what is fake fades away.

– Ismail Haniyeh

On this day

20 December – International Human Solidarity Day – celebrating unity in diversity, as well as reminding people of the importance of solidarity in working towards eradicating poverty.

20 December 1973 – Basque Nationalists kill Spanish Prime Minister, Admiral Luis Carrero Blanco in a car-bombing in Madrid.

20 December 1989 – Operation ‘Just Cause’ in which President George Bush orders 27,684 U.S. troops into Panama in an effort to oust Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega. Noriega surrendered on 3 January 1990.