Word: chilean
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thousands to watch as the flames roared through five huge stacks of lumber and spread to a few nearby buildings. It was a spectacular New Year's show. But within an hour, cheered on by their wives and children behind the police cordons, the firemen (volunteers, like all Chilean bomberos) seemed to be getting the blaze under control, and the watching crowds began to drift away again. Then the superintendent of an adjoining government warehouse rushed up to shout a warning: there were 1,214 Ibs. of dynamite stored in the building. Before he had even finished gasping...
...Chilean students patted each other on the back yesterday after one of the most phenomenal hoaxes in recent history made newspapers around the world. Medical students sent out a bogus report that a Chilean woman had borne septuplets, sustaining the story for hours before a doctor finally repudiated their claims...
...palace, to watch open-air performances by some 1,200 actors, dancers and musicians on seven different stages. Noisily, they cheered the general in his sky-blue uniform, the parading troops, the flat-hatted cowboy who galloped up to the general and handed him a horn filled with red Chilean wine. Some of their loudest cheers were for Eleanor Roosevelt,* head of the U.S. delegation to the inauguration...
...getting his degree, young Medina had found himself bored with the law. And so, between classes and cases, he studied bugs. He discovered the insect Congrophora Medinae, wrote about vampire legends, and in his spare time transated Evangeline into Spanish. Then, in 1874, he was appointed secretary to the Chilean legation in Lima, Peru. There, just "to kill time," he took up history and literature...
Animals & Aborigines. He wrote the first definitive book on Chilean colonial literature. Later, while serving as a provincial magistrate, Don J.T. got interested in botany and anthropology. He searched for rare plants, dug for bones of prehistoric animals, discovered a hitherto un-snown type of Megatherium (a kind of sloth). Meanwhile, he began pioneering in a field that had never been explored before: a monumental history of South American aborigines...