Word: guarani
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most Paraguayans are illiterate and speak the Indian tongue, Guarani. But the country counts eight daily newspapers, 13 radio stations, 17 movie theaters. In rural regions, entertainment includes dancing, chicken fighting, the drinking of caña (made from sugar cane), personal combat, general camaraderie. This program habitually starts at noon Saturday, ends at midnight Sunday...
...cuts south from Brazil for 1,000 miles, separating the northern tongue of Argentina from Uruguay and Brazil. To the west is the 2,200-mile Paraná. Starting in the highlands of southern Brazil, it curls around the low hills in Paraguay's southeastern corner, where the Guarani Indians first named it "Mother of the Sea," then heads south through Argentina to the Plata. The Paraguay rises in the sluggish swamps of the Mato Grosso, flows between heavy stands of quebracho trees through the heart of Paraguay, joins the Paraná where it enters Argentina...