Word: concepci
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...Rickard advertised that he needed cowhands for a Paraguayan ranching venture, young Lohman went south. Rickard soon quit but Lohman, with a $1,000 stake from Rickard, stayed. He bought 600 head of cattle and 50,000 acres, and started ranching at Red Wells, no miles west of Concepci...
Under the agreement, Chile would ship coal, iron and copper to Argentina. But, said other critics, after the new steel plant at Concepción is completed in 1949, Chile will have no coal to export, may even have to import coal from the U.S. to keep going. In the end, they were sure Argentina would get a stranglehold on Chile's economy...
...rebel base had been Concepcion, 130 miles up the Paraguay River from Morínigo's capital, Asunción. Because the Dictator lacked the ships, he was unable to attack the rebels by the river route. Slowly his ill-equipped troops plodded across country. Just short of Concepción they were blocked by the Ypané River barrier, and not until last month did they sweep into Concepcion. Morínigo cried that the war was as good as over. In shabby Asunción, factory whistles shrilled salutes to victory...
...week's end the rebels were close to Asunción, and its garrison of raggle-taggle troops that Morínigo hopefully dubbed the "Second Army Corps." His best force was still near Concepción. The rebels called for Asunción's surrender. Morínigo retorted that the rebels would be squeezed to death between his two armies, ordered the capital to remain calm. Foreign diplomats did not take him seriously. A vanguard had already moved across the border to safety in Argentina...
Last week the procession wound down the same streets, visited the same churches. The first day Our Lord of Miracles "lunched" at the Church of the Concepción, "slept" at the ancient Church of Los Descalzos. From balconies along the narrow streets women tossed flowers. Occasionally white doves flew up, released from paper cages by the devout, as the procession passed their doors. Behind the sweating litterbearers walked the penitents, with feet bare and sometimes bleeding, holding candles aloft and murmuring contritional prayers...