Word: chaco
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...left the country little strength for nation building. In 1864 Paraguay blustered into the suicidal, six-year War of the Triple Alliance against Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay; out of a population of 525,000, only 220,000 survived, and only 28,000 of these were men. Again in the Chaco War of the 1930s, Paraguay took on Bolivia and won 20,000 sq. mi. of wilderness borderland?at a cost of one Paraguayan life for each square mile. Thus the prize won in 1954 by Stroessner, a veteran of the Chaco War, was a sleepy backwater, 600 miles by river...
Later we pitched our tent in Chaco Canyon, just at dusk. Presently there rumbled into the campground five or six rhinoceros RVs, behemoths with generators on their roofs that hummed and groaned all night to power the people's TVs and air conditioners. They slept sealed up inside the beasts, and in the morning the rhinos rolled off single file down the blacktop, heading for Zion...