Word: isidro
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Seekers after culture swarmed Peuser's gallery to see an impressive exhibit of Matisse drawings, attended symphony concerts, heard visiting U.S. composer Aaron Copland conduct his Appalachian Spring ballet suite. Others put their money on the horses at Palermo, San Isidro and La Plata, rattled by train to the mosquito-infested waterways at Tigre for the weekend...
...women of intellectual power have visited Buenos Aires without finding their way to the Ocampo salon. At her Mar del Plata villa, brought beam-by-beam from England, or her San Isidro ancestral home where San Martin once plotted Peru's and Chile's liberation, the high talk proceeds preferably in French. "Since infancy," says Victoria, "in the whispering of Argentine alfalfa and wheat I have heard the sound of French verses...
Leaving forces to reduce the last few Japanese strong points, Major General Griswold's troops turned east from Manila, reached the hill villages of San Isidro and Montalban...
Meanwhile, the Japs' convoy of four troop transports, two freighters, four destroyers and three destroyer escorts was lurking in San Isidro Bay, 30 miles short of its destination at Ormoc. U.S. Army and Navy planes spent all day attacking them. By 5:30 p.m. every one had been sunk. The water was covered with oil, dotted with the bobbing heads of enemy soldiers...