Word: latin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When gunfire began crackling in Costa Rica's southern mountains two weeks ago, Latin Americans labeled the uprising another small-scale civil war. Last week they knew better. What had started as a purely local conflict between rival political factions threatened to involve all Central America...
...House has somehow acquired a Rio Grande reputation, perhaps originated in the interest of the genial Housemaster Clarence H. Haring '07, Bliss Professor of Latin American History, who at one time collected South Americans with data on the Spanish colonization of Peru...
Under Master Mason Hammond '25, professor of Greek and Latin and of History, the Deacons from a spirited unit, and probably, more than any other group of students, they are proud of their House. Its esprit de corps makes Kirkland much more than just a place to eat, sleep, and hang your...
...could see the last slimy traces of the winter's snow still melting in the gutter. But the sun was out and the banks of the Charles were once again strewn with people. In his hand Vag carried "The Dynamics of Political Polity," a big brown volume with many Latin quotations and algebraic equations. Vag lay down on the grass, opened his book, and started reading, following the words slowly with his index finger. Political polity, said the introduction, was a new science that would explain most of the events of the last three thousand years. Its basis...
Meanwhile Colombia, the conference host, had popped off and granted Somoza recognition. Most Latin American republics would probably soon follow Colombia's lead. If such a bandwagon started rolling, the U.S. might have to climb aboard, no matter whether it liked all the passengers...