Word: lima
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mountain trails on their way to masquerade in Port-au-Prince. In Buenos Aires' downtown Avenida de Mayo, colored lights, bunting and comic posters went up in preparation for a municipal jamboree. In Uruguay, practical jokers would soon be in full frolic on Montevideo's streets. In Lima, everybody battened down for a soaking, giggling weekend of indoor juegos con agua (water fights...
...flight from Lima to Panama, a five-year-old stallion named Canastos got frightened and kicked out the side of his stall. The Andes Airlines pilot knew what he had to do. Reluctantly, he fired two slugs from his revolver into Canastos' forehead. Then he brought his plane down on an emergency field...
...ground, the pilot went back for a look at his dead horse. Canastos was not dead, just subdued. In Panama last week, after shots of penicillin, Canastos was eating well and catching up on his rest. The veterinarian planned to remove the slugs, thought Canastos would run again. In Lima, horse fans remembered that Canastos always was a stayer...
Pick up any newspaper--from the New York Times to the New Orleans Times-Picayune to Ultima Hora in Lima, Peru. If there's a story in it about Radcliffe, it didn't get there without an official okay from the Radcliffe administration...
...eggs brown, and liked a wider, fatter bacon than most other Americans. They found that prim-mouthed Philadelphia was the nation's biggest market for dried prunes, and ate more ice cream per capita than any other city in the world. Richmond liked "triple succotash," a mixture of lima beans, corn and potatoes; Scranton, Pa. bought more butter per capita than any other city...