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Guatemala's Arévalo government also recently introduced a steep profits tax, despite a concession wangled from Ubico forbidding new taxation on United Fruit till 1981. Bargaining is tough. With huge new plantations in the Dominican Republic ready to sprout bananas by 1947, United Fruit can threaten to shut down in Guatemala, as it did in Colombia when disease and the government moved...
Guatemalan oppositionists regretfully pinned the nickname chilacayote (a tough, little pumpkin) on durable President Juan José Arévalo when his car plunged over a precipice, fell apart while the President remained whole (TIME, Dec. 31). Last week oppositionists had a new angle. Said they: shortly after the wreck, the presidential staff rushed to the market, bought up a lot of chilacayotes for a presidential blood transfusion...
Orozco, private secretary to Guatemalan President Juan José Arévalo, had been concerned about the repressed democrats of neighboring Honduras (which, with Nicaragua, had the last dictator-run government in Central America). Orozco went on the radio, broadcast to his neighbors: "Only the pines growing high on Honduras' proud mountains have remained free in that martyred land. And their roots go deep. 'Pines of Honduras' must become the password in the struggle to make Honduras free...
Juan José Arévalo, President of Guatemala, in a plaster cast, gingerly resumed some of his duties of office. On his way to a quiet holiday in the mountains, the President and his auto had shot off the edge of a 400-ft. precipice. Car and engine bounced apart on the way down. The President miraculously broke nothing...
...with new and even less intelligible lyrics, was the fast-climbing No. 2 seller in Billboard magazine's poll of record sales. It was well on its way to join Mairzy Boats and the Hut Sut Song in the jabberwocky Valhalla of the jukebox. Twenty-nine-year-old Ar kansas-born Jo Proffitt had changed the Chinaman into a chick, and called it Chickery Chick. She sent the lyrics to Tin Pan Alleysmith Sidney Lippman, who added some new notes. Now it describes a chicken who got bored with saying "chick chick" all day, astounds his companions...