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Word: atajard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Usage:

Ulatistas had plenty of fight. "Nada nos atajard!" (Nothing will stop us!) screamed their mountain radio. Their leader, Planter Figueres, predicted the opening of new guerrilla fronts. Left to themselves, the rebels might win. But with Nicaragua behind the faltering government forces, and the Guatemalans doing their bit for the opposition, it looked as though Costa Rica, which Peru's Haya de la Torre had called "the Czechoslovakia of the Western Hemisphere," might instead become an international battleground on the pattern of civil-war Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: Everybody's War | 3/29/1948 | See Source »

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