Word: breeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether improving the breed of their horses or strengthening the physique of their potential warriors, the Russians have a kind of competitive spirit the West would find hard to duplicate. For instance, as a Soviet futbol eleven trots out on the field, its players sing a dedication...
...medicine man was Orley Burham, a mysterious Ecuadorian-born Scot who years ago had shacked up with a half-breed cook named Rosa Elvira Felix, and opened for business as curandero (quack) to the Indian villagers of Puellaro. Before long Rosa shared the secret of the strange seed which he got the Indians to plant among the corn. His brothers, Juan and Nelson, peddled the dried plant as cigarets in Guayaquil or sent it on to Panama...
...wander through the script portray life in la province during the 1890s. There is Caroline Malterre, an empty-headed little widow and gossip who runs the village tavern. There is Alexis Labranche, the jolly mayor. And there are a couple of rascals: Notary Lepotiron and a no-good half-breed, Bill Wabo. (Any French Canadian no-account is now apt to be called a "Wabo...
...Such a breed might bring new prosperity to Southern farming, victim of a dying cotton economy. It might also improve the diet and health of near-milkless Latin American neighbors...
...this point that the strange romance began. Casting aside the hard-boiled lessons of the violent '36 strike, turning volte face from the most hard-bitten mistrust of capital that thoroughly left-wing unionism can breed, the maritime unions looked to the shipping companies for aid and solace in the face of the most imposing rival their organizations had ever faced--the government. The fine hands of the potent labor lobby and the equally powerful shipping bloc can be seen in the two-way squeeze applied to the Merchant Navy idea (abandoned in the first year of the war), government...