Word: bogota
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost it in 1930 by just such a division. Their nominee: coffee-rich Mariano Ospina Pérez, whose uncle and grandfather had been Colombian Presidents. Put up at the last minute by wily old Conservative Leader Laureano Gomez, ultra-respectable Candidate Ospina Perez had shrewdly sat tight in Bogota, made a few well-bred radio speeches, and waited for the divided Liberals to knock themselves...
Lochinvar Foiled. Near Bogota, Colombia, down came a young man's airplane, out ran the rancher's daughter. Up from a clump of bushes rose Rancher Jose Pastarana, lassoed his eloping daughter. Away flew the young...
...long time now TIME has been perhaps the biggest single importer into the U.S. of a better understanding of what is going on in other lands. And now that we are printing TIME each week on every continent-in Mexico City, in Bogota, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, Honolulu, Manila, Sidney, Calcutta, Teheran, Cairo, Rome, Stockholm and soon Paris-we hope we are also taking our place as perhaps the most trusted exporter to other lands of a better understanding of America and the part America is trying to play on the world scene...
Since Christmas just three rains have fallen on Bogota. But not one drop has touched the city's reservoir, 15 miles away at Regadera (which means "shower bath" in Spanish). Intimidated by the brassy skies, duly alarmed by the nearly empty "shower bath," local authorities last week urged all Bogotanos to get out of town if they possibly could. Some water mains were already dry. Schools were beginning to close down. Washing an automobile was declared a crime...
Partly to blame was the U.S. engineer who designed the water system, not dreaming that the city would grow from 332,000 to half a million in seven years. But Bogota boosters were not in a mood to boast. Only the local temperance leaguers felt like rejoicing: the flow of workingmen's chicha (corn beer) was also drying...