Word: conto
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...Argentina's reactionary Government put itself out of good international society by its too-friendly attitude toward Germany. Then things began to happen. Paraguay, with its strategic position and the fightingest population in South America, was courted from all sides. Big and arming Brazil gave a 100,000 conto loan ($5,170,000), gave President Morinigo a royal tour, offered freeport privileges at Santos on the open Atlantic. The U.S. has constructed a much-needed road in Paraguay, is building another, and has flooded the little country with Lend-Lease, doctors, agricultural experts and military technicians...
...likes to remember how the big Air France boats used to go through every few days with gifts for him, fresh vegetables from Argentina, wine and fruit from Dakar. Since France fell, he has not even received his salary. (Pan Am's Natal chief occasionally gives him a conto or two.) But he still keeps a tarpalin well spread over France's only plane at Natal, an old Fokker; he cuts the grass on the runway; and every night, over his radio, he reports "weather conditions" to Dakar...
...first, lost the next two and the match. She showed small interest in the game or its result. Fearless Whigs began to whisper that she might not be faking-she might really have something the matter. In the singles, Molla Mallory beat Joan Fry of England, Mlle. H. Conto-slavos of France beat Mrs. Marion Jessup, and Mlle. Lenglen, after displaying a physician's certificate that forbade her to take part in any vigorous match, beat the unknown Mrs. Dewhurst...
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