Word: arroyo
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Establishment of the bases, under a Good Neighbor agreement, had the hearty endorsement of Ecuador's liberal, hemisphere-minded President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio. The U.S. had been negotiating for them since 1940, last year granted a $500,000 RFC loan for the "commercial improvement" of Albermarle Island, largest of the Galápagos group. (Navy-minded Franklin Roosevelt cruised among the islands on the U.S.S. Houston...
Clanking over the rolling plain at 25 to 30 miles an hour, the tank has the motion of a small sailboat in choppy water. Every sudden encounter with a ditch or an arroyo knocks the crew against the steel walls, making them momentarily glad of their thick, hot helmets, which otherwise are instruments of torture in a desert that is on the average 10° hotter than Egypt...
Penning two wrathful letters, Huaraca XXVI signed them with the imperial three feathers and crown and sent them off to rap the knuckles of the guilty parties: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ecuador's President Carlos Arroyo del Rio. Then the imperial temper cooled. Huaraca XXVI was ready to lease his land to the U.S. for the war's duration for an "adequate rental...
Once stout supporters of President Carlos Alberto Arroyo del Rio, the brothers have subsequently decided that Arroyo, a good friend of the U.S., was a Ferdinand-the-bull in the Peruvian war, is now showing signs of timidity in the war against the Axis. With other ins and outs in Ecuadorian politics, they are awaiting a possible blowup this week. Congressional elections will test the strength of Arroyo and goat-bearded old Julio Moreno, President of the Senate, who hopes to succeed him. The elections may also bring to a head the almost continuous political crisis following the peace pact...
...horsemen spurted from the brush. In the scout cars, above the pattering exhausts, the men heard the crying breath of horses on the run. Mounted riflemen, machine-gun squads, four horse-drawn howitzers overtook, enveloped, rushed past the cars at 20 m.p.h. The horsemen vanished ahead into a shallow arroyo, arched over the far side, rode on. The artillerymen pulled up, dismounted, within a few minutes had their horses hidden, their guns barking blanks...