Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chile received prompt regrets from the German Government. Vice Admiral Julio Allard, Commander in Chief and Director General of the Chilean Navy, announced himself satisfied that there had been "no deliberate intent" to sink a Chilean ship, explained: "Inasmuch as the ship was proceeding without lights . . . the submarine could not know under what flag the Tolten was navigating." While the Chilean Government drafted a note protesting to the U.S. for the fatal order to extinguish lights, reportedly serving formal notice that Chilean ships would under no circumstances run blacked out, Ambassador Rodolfo Michels Cavero in Washington demanded another ship...
...Santiago, demonstrators stoned a tew Axis-owned stores, the PACH newsagency and the office of the pro-Axis newspaper El Chileno. The Japanese brazenly announced convoyed resumption of Japan-to-Chile shipping, promised within a week 24,000 tons of auto accessories, motors and tires...
...Itching Parrot-"Poll" for short-is the nickname of one Pedro Sarmiento, a well-born Mexican ne'er-do-well who plays out the classic routines of all picaresque heroes, with a strong dash of erotic chile con carne seasoned with moral saws and liberalistic satire. The Parrot disregards a wise father, is spoiled by a booby mother, wastes her fortune, sinks to the lowest flophouses and gambling dens of Mexico City, where "there are but two rules: luck and cheating. The former is more lawful, but the latter is surer." In jail the prisoners rob him and empty...
...Chile, only other American republic which has not broken relations with the Axis, indicated that Lawyer Ernesto Barros Jarpa would become Foreign Minister. With Barros, a stanch supporter of the U.S., in the Foreign Office, Chile felt that Washington would understand if she, too, thought things over a while longer...
...went to George Hibbert of Eilot, who dropped Kirkland's George Albion, and the 175 saw Eliot's Jack Corrigan lose to "Chile" Turner of Winthrop. The Unlimited went to George Blanchard of Claverly, who pinned Loweil's Dave Vaughn...