Word: latinate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...national interests in the 81-nation General Assembly: ¶ The Russians were sounding conciliatory in hopes of mustering a two-thirds majority for a resolution sufficiently ambiguous to be cited later as proof that the U.N. "ordered"' the U.S. and Britain out of Lebanon and Jordan. ¶ The Latin Americans, although sympathetic to the U.S. position, were not willing to support any resolution that clearly implied U.S. intervention in Lebanon was justified because it had been requested by Lebanese President Camille Chamoun. The reason: fear that this would establish a precedent that might someday be used to justify...
...dramatic reversal of long-frozen policy, the U.S. last week agreed to help set up an international bank for Latin American economic development. At a special session of the Organization of American States, World Financier C. Douglas Dillon, now Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs, announced: "The U.S. is prepared to consider the establishment of an inter-American regional-development institution." Latin America's joyous response was summed up by El Salvador Delegate Julio Heurtematte: "It is the realization of an old dream...
What caused the U.S. about-face? One reason became plain next day, when President Eisenhower suggested a similar plan for the troubled Middle East before the U.N. General Assembly. But more important was Latin America's joint impact on Visitors Richard Nixon, Milton Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. When Dulles returned from talks with Brazilian President Juscelino Kubitschek a fortnight ago, he put his department heads to work on the development bank idea...
...support for the idea of an inter-American development bank caused hopeful smiles to blossom in every Latin American capital last week. Even more hopeful were signs in some" of the hemisphere's key countries that free-handed spending might be replaced with tight budgeting, that careless deficits would give way to more careful planning. The results promised to solve many of the new bank's problems before they become problems-and even before there is a bank...
...recounts Read, a Canadian sheriff who lost a culprit in a bog swore out a warrant, explaining that the offender "non est comeatibus in swampo." By 1841 the mock Latin for "will not come out of the swamp" was widely accepted backwoods legal terminology for "unavailable." An Illinois tavern keeper posted notice of a delinquent barfly who disappeared without paying his tab: "Non est inventus ad libitum scape goatum non comeatibus in swampo. Ergo, non catchibus, non prosecutibus, non tryabus, non chastisibus...