Word: lima
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...while, Venturo was spending almost as much time at Lima's airport as at the Agriculture Ministry. For his next try, Pedro was negotiating last week with a commercial airline for a larger plane which could carry water and dry ice, as well as photographers and newspapermen. Although the desert had not yet bloomed, Peruvians had faith in Rainmaker Venturo. Said one Limeño: "The public shouldn't get disappointed-remember Salvarsan is called '606' because the discoverer failed the first 605 times...
Reports of an outbreak of internal upsets, which nervous Freshmen laid to Lima beans served in the Monday evening Union meal, dribbled in from the Yard last night, but Dr. Andrew W. Contratto, physician in the Department of Hygiene, declared that no stricken undergraduates had turned up at Stillman Infirmary...
...Across Lima's Plaza San Martin, blue-sweatered students bore a pine coffin wrapped in the Peruvian flag. Watching crowds sang the national anthem as the procession moved toward the Colegio de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, Lima's largest (7,000 students) public high school. As the gates of the school chapel swung open, a bugler sounded taps. A senior spoke briefly. Heriberto Avellanada Beltrán, he said, had died for liberty...
...Francisco Negrao de Lima, the Brazilian diplomat who had tried unsuccessfully to mediate between Morínigo and the rebels, gave the Dictator only a few more days. Said he: "The end seems close...
Westwood when it was just an ambitious real-estate scheme superimposed on a field of lima beans. He sank his last $450 in a two-chair shop...