Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...entire technique, as described in the article, was taken to Ecuador, to Mexico and to other Latin American countries...
...Soviet nationalism had become less aggressive. But the other, the ideological barrel, was still loaded and aimed. "In most of the world, effective popular leadership is in the hands of persons who are sympathetic to Soviet Communist doctrines." Spreading revolutionary movements in China, India, Dutch Indonesia, French Indo-China, Latin America, France, Italy gave Communists reason to remember 1946 "joyfully." Under the threat of that Red explosion the U.S. now stands. How best to meet that threat was Dulles' concern...
...Innocents* and the Latin American equivalent of April Fool's Day. At the San Tome camp of the Mene Grande Oil Co., the plane had just landed from Caracas. Its most important cargo: $287,000 in crisp bills to pay drillers and riggers. It brought also a surprise. When company paymasters opened the moneybag, they found only bricks and old newspapers. A Day of the Innocents' joke, was their first thought. But it was no joke; somewhere between Caracas and San Tome the payroll pouch had been stolen...
...reducing their size from 18 to 15 inches; it made the basket-shooting in the actual game seem easier. While his players romp on the court, Keaney, a Phi Beta Kappa, calls to them in his own curious language, compounded of corny phrases he has coined himself, mixed with Latin or Latin-sounding words. Samples: "Little Ossie Fagus, non compos mentis, biblioclasmic. . . . You're stale stew ... go back to the widdy bimps [bench] . . . don't be a Fanny Willie [showoff] ... dig up a new arm in some cemetery." Besides being athletic director and basketball coach, Keaney also brews...
...spokesman on international affairs. He was foreshadowing his new role in the shaping of policy; in his lines could be read significant shifts of emphasis on Some phases of existing policy, clarifications on other debated points. The Senator's speech made news-about U.N., trade policy, China, Latin America, The Bomb...