Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battle of the ports was being fought with fresh vigor. Cartagena, 414 years old and long a sleeper behind ancient, 50-foot-thick walls, had roused itself and gone after business. Its parvenu competitors: Barranquilla and Buenaventura. Stake: the trade between Colombia's rich, highland interior and lands across...
...eligible to vote, or able to read a newspaper. Three years ago, the National Journalists' Union decided to do something about it. By last week, 100,000 Ecuadorians had learned their ABCs at one of 2,740 literacy centers scattered through the nation's remote highland valleys and coastal lowlands...
...lines) somewhere near the geographical center of the country; four succeeding constitutions repeated the provision. But nothing ever came of the idea, despite its periodic champions. Last week, poker-faced President Dutra said that he was dead serious about building a permanent federal capital in the dry, wild, highland cattle country of the deep interior...
...grimly over a bitter Christmas jest, "Starve with Strachey, shiver with Shin-well" (Fuel Minister Emanuel Shinwell)*, watched the delivery of the King's traditional gift of a hundredweight of coal to the needy of four Windsor parishes, read hungrily about the progress of a British freighter, the Highland Monarch, as it butted through the foggy Atlantic. Aboard were 250,000 turkeys from Argentina, which would help feed many a hungry Briton this Christmas...
...common nomad of Tibetan highland but have visited frequently the Lolo-land. Because we have in common the right of montani semper liberi* I take the courage of expressing my heart to the world...