Word: amazon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Amazon. Muleteer Daveron bought the remaining mules. He sold some to the Brazilian Army to finance the trip, then with 171 of the strongest he set out for the Amazon by way of Bolivia, as he had planned all along...
...expand into the huge areas back of the present narrow strip of coastal settlement. They hope that moving the seat of government beyond present railheads, smack into the healthful, mosquito-free heartland, might start Brazilians colonizing all the way from Belém at the mouth of the Amazon to São Paulo state in the south...
...system went wrong, subjected him to skull-cracking pressure), he showed no nervousness or apprehension over his job. Between flights at Muroc he lounged comfortably in an adobe cottage at nearby Willow Springs. He swam, read, listened to Rachmaninoff and Chopin recordings, dreamily contemplated his fondest ambition: exploring the Amazon with a helicopter. From time to time he climbed into a conventional P-51, flew to Los Angeles to look in on his girl friends...
...steaming Amazon basin snakes sloughed their skins and downriver at Belém (pronounced Beleng) a two weeks' festival in honor of Our Lady of Nazareth, observed by the eating of barbecued beef, drinking rum aged in coconuts and dropping contributions into Our Lady's donkey cart, had just ended. South on the Hump, in the states of Pernambuco and Baía, the spring rains brought up tender green sprouts of sugar cane and tobacco, promising record crops...
...puna, the more-than-two-mile-high sierra, the saffron moss took a little spring rain and greened. The llama, alpaca and wild vicuña prospered. Beyond the Divide, where the tributaries of the Urubamba, ancient river of the Incas, flow down their slotted valleys toward the Amazon, the oxen pulled the wooden plows across the tiny fields. It was not unusual to see as many as ten teams interminably plowing a valley acre terraced with the stones of the Inca...