Word: dorado
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Namesake. In El Dorado, Kans., August Herman Draft Jr. got notice of his induction from Draft Board Clerk Barbara Jane Board...
...Cali, defiant squads roamed the streets carrying thermos jugs, passing out coffee free to all. In Bogota's Cafe El Dorado, a grey-maned lawyer declaimed: "They're trying to tax a tradition-aye, exploit friendship itself!" In La Botella de Oro, a young sculptor shouted: "The birthright of all Bogotanos-a harmless vice, our oldest tradition. Double the price? No hay derecho! (They have no right...
Selection. This year nearly 50,000 D.P.s will arrive to take up life in the back country mountains and jungles where the Spaniards once sought El Dorado. About 15,000 will be sponsored by the International Refugee Organization; at least 30,000 will be immigrants paying their own way. By last month 9,000 had arrived; last week the S.S. Santa Cruz brought 1,200 more; this week the U.S. Army's S.S. General S. D. Sturgis will dock with 850. Next year's goal is 100,000; within five to ten years, predicts Julio Grooscors, head...
...middle-class couple went fishing. The husband caught a fat ten-pound dorado, gloated: "We'll have it with baked potatoes." Replied his wife: "You can't get potatoes for love or money-couldn't for months." "All right," said the husband, "let's have it fried, and eat it with vegetables." "But," said the wife, "there haven't been any vegetables in town since the truck gardeners went on strike." "Oh well," said the husband, "then just fry it in oil." The wife's answer: "There's none...
...Mexican gold rush was no El Dorado. U.S. ball players, who started the season playing the fancy kind of ball Boss Jorge Pasquel paid them for, by last week were looking pretty sad. The league's leading batter (.383) was Cuba's Claro Duany; and the only high-priced U.S. batsman who was close was ex-Giant Nap Reyes (.375). Onetime major leaguers Luis Olmo, Danny Gardella and George Hausmann had sagged fought, out of the .300 class. The Card's fugitive Max Lanier had won six and lost one, but some of the home-grown pitchers...