Word: chileanizing
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Possessed of a budding paunch and a brand new engineering diploma, young Braden set to work in his father's Chilean copper mine. He was 21 when he saw 19-year-old Maria Humeres del Solar in the box of a Santiago theater. By managing to marry her six months later he set something of a record in overcoming the restrictive protocol of Latin courtship, and the lack of a common language. (Both now speak excellent Spanish and English.) Two of Braden's handiest assets in Latin America have been his greying senora's charm and judgment...
...Chilean wanted to know where and for how much he could get a Russian portable typewriter sent to his sister-in-law in Santiago. We got one for him through the All-Language Typewriter Company, which superimposed the Russian alphabet on a German portable...
...First Secretary of the Chilean Embassy in Washington was giving a cocktail party. The talk was of Virginia hams and the weather. Suddenly a young reporter spilled his Scotch & water into a girl's lap. Wailed the girl: "What a mess!'' Said Host Fernando Ortuzar, who had been looking elsewhere: "Which mess, madam, London or Argentina...
...whom had to be removed from office by force. Reader Páez, Ecuador's President from 1935 to 1937, suspended the Constitution and ruled by decree for more than a year, suppressed several uprisings by supporters of Dr. Velasco Ibarra, and, in 1938, took refuge in the Chilean legation when his Government ordered his arrest on charges of misusing public funds...
Almost at the same time, on the floor of the San Francisco conference, Chilean Delegate Joaquin Fernandez y Fernandez strode in, waving a copy of the Call-Bulletin with the screamer: NAZIS QUIT. The delegates, who had been listening to a translation of a speech in Spanish, rose and clapped. So did Comrade Molotov, who was presiding...