Word: bolivar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nibble around the edges of this concept, he finds it one into which it is difficult to sink his teeth-it jumps back like a playful puppy every time he looks at it-as he slides back a bit in his leather chair in the lobby of the Bolivar and tries again. Four mornings later, over breakfast in bed, he says, in a loud voice: "Why am I here? Bullfights?-rather dull after the first time. Movies?-six months after New York. The races?-only on Sundays." Getting no answer because no polite person ever points out the obvious...
...Peruvians entered the Gulf of Guayaquil to seize Puerto Bolivar...
...Hemisphere's only war has been going on during the past fortnight-in defiance of an armistice agreement and unknown to the rest of the world. The Peruvians entered the Gulf of Guayaquil with several ships and planes. Just twelve Peruvian parachutists took Machala and seven took Puerto Bolivar. They kept banging away at the town as they floated down, but stopped when there was no Ecuadorian counter fire. Peruvian troops moved easily across the flat land between the coast and Piedras. In a miniature Blitz they burned farms, confiscated crops, looted houses even of radio sets and bric...
...biggest and best voluntary (privately run) Negro hospital in the U.S. It has 165 beds, handles 1,000 emergencies a month (mostly charity), has 88 doctors on its staff (eight of them whites). Among the staff consultants are such famed white doctors as Gynecologists Fred Lyman Adair and Joseph Bolivar DeLee...
...diplomats hastened to proffer their good offices, hoping that at this time, of all times, the Americas would not get to fighting among themselves. But while statesmen took counsel together, 15,000 people marched through the streets of Quito, waving flags, stood bareheaded before the statue of Simon Bolivar and sang the Ecuadorian national anthem...