Word: colombia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Casimiro Velandia of Bogotá owned a strain of the most belligerent fighting cocks in all Colombia; he was also the proud father of three pretty daughters. Last week these joys of Casimiro's life were sadly entangled...
Modest Boast. As the session broke up Christmas Eve in the ornate, damask-walled council room of the Pan American Union, all the delegates seemed satisfied. O.A.S. Secretary General Alberto Lleras Camargo of Colombia allowed himself a modest boast: "This is a little quicker than the U.N. Security Council...
Northward Ho. By this season's end, there were few upper or middle-class Cubans who had not visited Florida or were not planning a visit. Other travelers from Latin America had joined the northward trek, especially from Venezuela, Colombia and Brazil, but three out of four of Miami's southern tourists were Cubans...
Died. Dr. Herbert Spencer Dickey, 72, veteran South American explorer and ethnologist, who located the source of the Orinoco in Brazil and discovered the Cuiapo-Pihibi tribe in Colombia; of a heart ailment; in Huigra, Ecuador...
...Recent accusations that such countries as Colombia and Venezuela are seriously pro-Communist can be passed off as simply abuse of language," he explained...