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Word: aguas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...near Los Angeles. No one saw her come out. For over a month the nation's front pages were frenzied. The Angelus Temple's faithful paraded the beaches mourning loud & long. A girl committed suicide and a diver was drowned. Then, 36 days later, Aimee reappeared in Agua Prieta, Mexico, just across the border from Douglas, Ariz. She had, she said, been kidnapped, but how or by whom nobody could find out. There were suggestions that Sister Aimee was the veiled woman who had been seen at Carmel, Calif, with one Kenneth Ormiston, the radio operator at Angelus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Story of My Life | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

Responsible for Mexico's racing revival is bustling, 40-year-old Bruno Pagliai, onetime California banker whose past enterprises include two famed Hollywood playgrounds: the Agua Caliente race track (now closed for the duration) and the La Playa Hotel at Ensenada. Undaunted by the fact that several other U.S. citizens had tried, with little success, to revive racing in Mexico, Pagliai got the ear of Wall Street Financier Ben ("Sell 'em-Short") Smith, who had developed an interest in horse racing by taking planeloads of friends to Kentucky Derbies. Assured of Smith's enthusiasm, Pagliai then convinced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Good Neighbor's Racetrack | 2/15/1943 | See Source »

Bald, rumpled Foreign Minister Alberto Guani of Uruguay, en route for a visit to the U.S., paused last week in Rio de Janeiro's swank Copacabana Hotel to give a tip on a new trend in South America foreign policies. Over ham, potato salad and agua mineral he told reporters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE AMERICAS: Parade to Moscow | 2/1/1943 | See Source »

Many a U.S. citizen has gambled, guzzled, bought souvenirs and knickknacks at Tijuana, Agua Caliente, Ensenada. Few have braved the one lumpy, unpaved road that reaches down to Baja California's tip. It was to patrol this area that President Avila Camacho obligingly sent troops to Baja California. Because the peninsula is inaccessible even from Mexico, he got permission to transport his soldiers by rail through Arizona and California (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: To Shoe an Achilles Heel | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

Some quickly offered their pets to the U.S. Remount Service. Others, willing to take a chance and lucky enough to get stall space, had their horses vanned to Mexico's Agua Caliente, 150 miles away, where racing is permitted on Sundays only. But many itinerant horsemen will be compelled to apply to the California Turf Foundation for financial aid in order to pasture their horses until the opening of the East's spring season...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: No More Pansies | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

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