Word: latine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Geometry They Don't Dig. A onetime premedical student at Michigan State University. Waldron found himself confronted by every kind of question, from "What is an idea?" to "What are the three body types?" He had to conjugate Latin verbs, locate the source of the Mississippi, identify the President of the U.N. General Assembly, solve all sorts of math problems for troubled bobby-soxers. "Geometry," he found, "they just don't dig." So many questions poured in that Waldron soon realized the station's "reference library-a 1943 Who's Who, a 1950 Information Please Almanac...
...Candlelight. Last week Christian Democrat Federico Biggi, a lawyer and Latin professor in his spare time, called his followers together over a secret dinner of lasagna. roast chicken and Chianti in a small restaurant in the Italian seaside town of Rimini. Dinner over, Biggi and his lieutenants slipped furtively back into San Marino, called their followers together and passed out a formidable armory of ancient muskets, hunting rifles and outmoded carbines. Then they holed up in an abandoned iron foundry only 50 yards from the Italian border, and on a rickety table lighted by a candle stuck in a bottle...
...lover. In part, Joseph, with his "attractive grave hardness," was an antidote to Dylan, who had been so finicky that he could pull an "all-out faint" at the sight of a mouse, and was "as useless as a penguin with his hands." In part, it was a Latin love call that Caitlin could not resist ("those wonderful whirlpools of dankly greasy, black grass hair, that it was an insult to the Creator not to fondle"). Caitlin recalls every turn of their sometimes amusing, often pathetic affair. Elba proved as strait-laced as Laugharne, Wales, and the time came when...
...deal to date. The fund gave temporary first aid to the slumping reserves of countries "with rather ambitious development programs" (Argentina, Denmark, France, India, Japan, The Netherlands). It eased seasonal trade deficits in countries with only one major export crop (Cuba, Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador). It backed programs in Latin America (Chile, Colombia, Bolivia, Paraguay, Peru) to simplify systems of multiple exchange rates that threaten trade stability by favoring some foreign customers at the expense of others...
Bill of Complaint. Smarting under the criticism, 20 Latin American countries swiftly drew up a four-point petition counter-criticizing World Bank operations. They wanted 1) speedier loan consideration, 2) loan approval by their own governments rather than the bank, 3) loans in their own national currencies as well as foreign money, 4) granting of "general" loans, not just specific ones. A more telling complaint was added by Pakistan's M. A. Mozaffar: "The ratio of World Bank loans granted to the underdeveloped countries of Asia and the Middle East declined from...