Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hemisphere's Mr. Big, the U.S. could take whatever line it pleased. But to go on doing so belied a Good Neighbor's concern for neighborly action. Some Latin American diplomats hinted that if the State Department did not change its tune, the "Pan-American system" would go on ice for six years (i.e., as long as Perón was President). The question was how badly the U.S. wants hemispheric unity. For hemispheric unity could not be had without including...
Latinos had always found New Orleans simpatico. It was linked to them by the traditions of Bourbon Spain. Its easy graces, Gallic sauces, gaiety and gambling had been a consolation to Latin American political exiles since Jean Lafitte made common cause with the struggling republic of Cartagena...
...Latin American sports argot contains many words borrowed from English and Hispanicized. Examples: beisbol, jutbol, tim, picker...
Words have been Walter Duranty's stock in trade. As a Cambridge honor graduate, he tutored in Latin, sold stories to Argosy until the New York Times's Paris office hired him in 1913. He covered French armies in World...
...this country within our great sister communion, the Roman Catholic Church. The first is its increasing commitment to a Roman, as distinguished from the traditionally independent, policy of American Catholicism. Such a trend has inevitably produced in history the phenomenon called clericalism, which has been the bane of Latin lands and from which we in the United States have been providentially spared. Clericalism is the pursuit of power, especially political power, by a religious hierarchy, carried on by secular methods and for purposes of social domination...