Word: arroyos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Governor six years ago. In the mornings he glances at the papers "to see what has happened to the poor old Allies," then settles down to his regular 1,000 words a day. From his windows in the rambling, one-story Sinclair frame house he looks across the Arroyo Seco to mountains on three sides. When a visitor comes in, Sinclair's tanned, evangelical face lights up as he says: "First I want to show you something beautiful"-prize roses or irises in a living-room vase...