Word: amazonian
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Since 1521, when the first Portuguese colonists settled on her shores, she has provided much of the world's sugar. The gold and diamonds of Minas Gerais made Portuguese monarchs the envy of Europe. The automotive age rode in on Amazonian rubber, and Brazil's terra roxa (red earth) has produced most of the world's coffee...
...Theory. Bingham is convinced that the city he found is older, perhaps a thousand years older, than Cuzco, which dates from about 1100. To this spot, he believes, the pre-Inca ruler Pachacuti retreated before Amazonian hordes. On the mountain terraces, the pre-inca civilization survived to go forth with manco, the first Inca, to Cuzco and the far-flung empire (Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador) that the Spaniards found. To this peak the last Incas fled to live out their days in cloudswept palaces that no white man saw till, in 1911, Hiram Bingham found them...
Rumania's Amazonian Foreign Minister Ana Pauker, wearing a New Look dress of white-flowered blue silk, with a grey lizard handbag, rose and in stumbling Russian said she had always cherished that language as her mother tongue. She had to be prompted by an assistant when she forgot the Russian word for "love."* At the end she mopped her brow in obvious relief. After these satellite tributes, English was voted down 7-3. (Next day the Bulgarians, Hungarians and Yugoslavs switched from Russian to French for their speeches...
...family's heyday, she says, her great-grandfather opened the Marseille Prefecture Ball by escorting the Empress Eugénie on his arm. In these rowdier days, Mme. Magnan-Pellenc has taken to the political soapbox. Her object is to organize women as "The Amazons of Peace." The amazonian slogan: "War on Man, to Get Peace for the World." The first step is to try to win for women the municipal elections of Marseille, where Mme. Magnan-Pellenc has rallied 283 Amazons...
...Communist-stooge Government with having violated its peace treaty with the U.S. Suppression of the National Peasant Party, and arrest of Juliu Maniu, National Peasant leader, were both in violation of guaranteed freedoms, said Secretary Marshall. In Bucharest, Marshall's note went unpublished. Ana Pauker, Rumania's Amazonian Communist boss, was setting the tone. In a recent speech she termed Americans "fascists" and "enemies of the people...