Word: lima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost three minutes the earth juggled the ancient town of Nazca, while houses crumbled. The nearby village of Palpa was flattened, as if by an iron, and a deathly ague shook Ica, toppling the steeple of the Church of Our Lord of Luren in a foam of dust. In Lima, 250 miles to the north, thousands who remembered the terrible quake of 1940 were driven into the streets by a frightening temblor...
...country, already canning 50% more than usual (TIME, July 27), to can even more. In the cheese weeks (Aug. 17-29) the Department hopes to liquidate the stock of 165 million pounds of extra American cheddar. Probable best bets in the U.S. kitchen sweepstakes for late August: corn, lima beans, plums and prunes...
...minded President had strato-clippered the 2,875 miles from Lima to Bolling Field, where waited Franklin Roosevelt and pomp & circumstance. Although no parade had been scheduled, seven military bands and guards of honor at "present arms" flanked the four-mile route. In sockets on Franklin Roosevelt's "Sunshine Special," his big, shiny limousine, stood the Presidential flag and Peru's red-and-white banner. Government workers hung out of office windows. It was Washington's first parade since Pearl Harbor...
...tiny reliquary (½ by 1½ by 2½ in.) was sealed into the new high altar of St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan last Saturday. In the reliquary were bone fragments of each of the twelve Apostles, of St. Patrick, St. Francis of Assisi, St. Rose of Lima (the first American saint) and three Jesuit saints martyred by the Iroquois in 1649. They came straight from Rome, where a special department of the Vatican authenticates relics of the saints and sends them with proper attestation wherever new altars are needed...
Davio Acevedo, of Lima. Peru, as Research Fellow in Physiology; M.D. Faculty of Medicine of Lima, Peru...