Word: awaying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half the hemisphere it was summer, the hottest in years. Millions of latinos, turning away from rumors of political plots and the facts of economic crises, splurged on record-breaking holidays. The rich, kept from Manhattan and Europe by foreign-exchange restrictions, went to the home resorts. The new industrial classes, their pockets packed with inflated currencies, plunged into the pleasures of unaccustomed leisure. In such seaside capitals as Rio and Montevideo, even the underprivileged poor had a chance to play on world-famous beaches...
...last week. That day, 17,540 Chileans rode trains from the capital's hot streets to beaches, lakes, mountains. In buses chartered by sports clubs, other sweating thousands rattled off for a day's dip in the chill Pacific, just two hours away at San Antonio. The luckiest Chileans, including President Gabriel González Videla, lolled in the luxury of Vina del Mar, where they improved their tans on white crescent beaches, on yacht decks, or on the balconies of flower-girt villas...
...welcome home, and wanted all her U.S. friends to know about it. Said she in a note to Variety: "Such loving devotion after so long an absence is most moving. After all, these people have experienced great suffering, privation, and tragedy together during the twelve years I have been away...
...handicapped people in the U.S. are the cerebral palsied-or "spastics," as they are often loosely called. Cerebral palsy (estimated U.S. cases: 500,000) is almost as common as infantile paralysis, and until recently, its sufferers were often carelessly regarded as feebleminded. Thousands of its victims were put away in institutions...
When Louis was five his mother took him away from Jane Alley, moved some 18 blocks to Liberty Street, near Perdido in the old third ward. Socially it was the shortest of steps, but it was up, and for Louis it was decisive: near by were the Fisk School, where he learned to read & write, and honky-tonks like Sicilian Henry Matranga's place and thickly packed Funky Butt Hall, where both the syncopation and the dancing were strident and brassy...