Word: andes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sidewalk and broke both ankles. A German pilot insisted on running the plane trials on the scheduled day. Doolittle had his feet strapped to the rudder bar, chased the German from the sky. Later, with his crutches in the plane, he soloed across the deathtraps of the Andes to Buenos Aires...
...sparse and dominated by the landed gentry on their great fundos. The nation's industrial workers average less than $200 yearly, her agricultural workers less than $100. Santiago's dank slums and pasty-faced poor are as prominent a feature as Chile's snow-crusted Andes...
...that sort of thing." Next he tried "the tobacco road" to wealth. His firm shipped him to South America "to discover why the natives were not smoking our cigarets." When he turned up at his boss's engagement party floating in alcohol, he was pushed across the Andes...
Oroya fever of the highland Andes, apparently caused by nocturnal, blood sucking flies (phlebotomi). The first phase of the disease is a raging fever, highly in fectious, usually fatal; the second, an eruption of pea-like warts on knees, elbows, face. For this menace there is no known prevention, no known cure...
...shores of Lake Titicaca in the Peruvian Andes where my wife and I are making anthropological studies of the Aymara Indians, we had occasion to attend one of their ceremonies which was designed to placate an important spirit. In deference to our presence, the Indian medicine men made additional offerings to this deity "so that no harm will befall the United States, and so that she may triumph over her enemies...