Word: bolivares
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...rambunctiously bursting its boundaries to the West when South America's "Great Liberator," Simon Bolivar, wrote these words in 1822. Latin American countries all had grandiose ideas, a few had paper constitutions, many had military despots...
...Spider. His admirers say that Aranha (pronounced Aran-yah) has the eloquence of Aristide Briand, the romantic dash of D'Artagnan and the Pan-American idealism of the great Simón Bolivar. Actually Aranha is a onetime fire-breathing revolutionary who believes with cold logic that Brazil's self-interest now, as traditionally in the past, lies in close ties with the U.S. He has cemented those ties through hard work, U.S. loans and a charming gift of gab in Portuguese, French, Spanish and English. The word Aranha means "spider" in Portuguese and Aranha, audacious, hypertonic, sometimes...
...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...
...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...