Word: avenida
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Just at the rush hour one afternoon last week, a group of men turned out of Buenos Aires' honking, bustling Avenida de Mayo into the quiet courtyard of the government-closed newspaper La Prensa. Five of the men were members of the congressional committee ordered to take over the paper and examine its books; the rest were cops and minor legal officials. In the courtyard, knots of employees fell silent as the government men went...
...weeks to the chants of contenders for the title of 1951 calypso king. In Haiti, more than 30,000 people, clad in bamboo suits of armor and other bizarre costumes, loped along mountain trails on their way to masquerade in Port-au-Prince. In Buenos Aires' downtown Avenida de Mayo, colored lights, bunting and comic posters went up in preparation for a municipal jamboree. In Uruguay, practical jokers would soon be in full frolic on Montevideo's streets. In Lima, everybody battened down for a soaking, giggling weekend of indoor juegos con agua (water fights...
...underground leader was driving along tree-lined Avenida 28 de Julio the night after the trial. At the corner of Avenida Dupetit-Thouars, the car stopped. At this point, according to the official communique, police, who had been tracking Negreiros for weeks, ordered him to put up his hands and surrender. He jumped out of the car and began firing in the darkness. The cops returned the fire...
...Paulo. In their air-conditioned board room five stories above Rio's Avenida Wilson, the conferees worked on, unperturbed by the Red heat...
...says that he spends about 99% of his waking hours thinking about Pemex. Three days each week he visits oil regions in his DC-3, "El Petrolero"; the rest of the time he works hard in Pemex' pseudo-colonial, four-floor office building on Mexico City's Avenida Juárez. He often dashes over to the Casa Crema for a conference with President Aleman...