Word: latine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...free enterprise if the system appears designed primarily to maintain the status quo and protect the wealth and good life for the few." The U.S. has also suffered prestige setbacks from Sputnik and Little Rock, and from its take-'em-for-granted attitude toward its hemisphere neighbors. Latin Americans widely credit the U.S. with favoring hated strongmen; Venezuela is currently irked because Washington gave a U.S. visa to ex-Dictator Marcos Peérez Jime...
...longer be a bland good-will mission in the manner of his round-the-world trip of 1953 or his visits to the Caribbean in 1955, the Far and Near East in 1956, Africa in 1957. The dividends instead would be the fair warning of Communist progress in Latin America and of the urgent need for U.S. attention, plus the admiration that Dick Nixon earned by his own show of calmness and courage...
...reciprocal trade agreements. Under Seaton's five-year plan, which would cost an estimated $161 million the first year, the Government would pay the miners of copper, lead, zinc, tungsten and fluorspar the difference between the market price and a set "stabilization" price. To Canada and the Latin American countries that export metals to the U.S., the Seaton plan is a welcome alternative to the tariff increases they face. The increases, plus cutbacks in imports, have already stirred up bitter feelings, as Vice President Nixon has found out on his South American tour...
...Before the desecrated altar of a shattered church, Rosetta is raped by a squad of French Moroccan soldiers. Her traumatic reaction is to become indiscriminately promiscuous. Cesira, in turn, is reduced to robbing one of her daughter's slain paramours. At novel's end, only the profound Latin conviction that the first duty of life is to go on living keeps the two women sane as they travel the long road back to Rome...
...true," said a scraped Latin American to the little man at the roulette wheel. "The Israel folk-singing was broken up by an Arab drum. I swear it's true...