Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Line. In the 22 years since it was born in the caves of Yenan, Hsinhua has grown into a formidable propaganda machine. Its radio-teletype network throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America gets regular transmissions from Peking. It has 31 bureaus in Red China; outside, in addition to the big Hong Kong office, it staffs bureaus in most Western European capitals, in Moscow, Damascus, New Delhi, Baghdad, Cairo, Havana-an estimated...
While Author Kieran easily makes his point that nature endures all things, even concrete and steel, he also chronicles the species that have been pushed beyond the city limits-the oyster, the deer, the bobcat and beaver. Among the latest to leave is snowy-thatched, Latin-quoting John Kieran himself. The story on nature in New York is complete and compelling, but the story was filed from Rockport, Mass. His ancient habitat, a rambling Riverdale house where once a flying squirrel was a steady customer at a bird-feeding station, is now a stretch of concrete in the Henry Hudson...
...Americans must study Spanish," Castro urged. "It is very important for Latin American relations that you students learn Spanish and come down here to speak with my people...
...spent much of his time defending poverty stricken peasants caught in the snares of the intricate Cuban laws. Cuban law is derived from the Spanish, rather than Anglo-Saxon, tradition, which accounts for some of the misunderstanding incurred between Americans and Cubans, especially over the question of trials. The Latin American conception of justice includes not only objective considerations of evidence, but human factors, personality and prevailing emotion...
Meeting in Washington, representatives of the world's major coffee areas agreed on the first export quota plan ever to include Africa as well as Latin America. Latin Americans, citing a world market of about 39 million bags v. production of about 51 million, wanted the Africans to join them in last year's pact, but the Africans were more interested in bigger markets than in price. Brazil's selling blitz cut sharply into African sales, persuaded Africans to sign...