Word: gualeguaych
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...birth to a son, weight 3½ kilograms. Somehow, Argentina's ever-alert federal police got hold of a copy of the cable; their gimlet eyes lingered long over the word "dynamite." Kirton, after all, was a foreigner- a Brazilian-born Briton. And he owned a ranch in Gualeguaychú in Entre Rios Province, just across the river from Uruguay-mighty handy for smuggling dynamite...
Suspicion deepened into certainty when the police discovered that there were two U.S. citizens-brothers George and Arthur Oppen-living in Gualeguaychú. At 6 o'clock one morning, five husky cops strode into Kirton's bedroom, hauled him off to jail. Not only the Oppens but three members of Argentina's moribund Conservative Party who had also been friendly with Kirton or the Oppens were arrested. For good measure, a few members of the troublesome Radical Party and a Communist or two were also nabbed. In all, 24 men were arrested; all were held incommunicado...
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