Word: lima
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opponents paint Nixon as a ruthless, calculating politician without an ounce of humanity in his soul. Yet there are numberless incidents in the book that show him as a lonely man who treasures tiny tributes as though they were sapphires. He recalls that in the midst of the Lima riots, just before Caracas, "Tad Szulc. Latin American correspondent for the New York Times, ran alongside the car saying, 'Good going, Mr. Vice President, good going. " In Moscow, immediately after his harangue with Khrushchev, "Ernie Barcella the correspondent for United Press International, came alongside and whispered...
Over the main entrance of the red brick bullring, on the western edge of Lima, hung a sign: "Jesús dijo: yo soy el camino y la verdad y la vida" (Jesus said: I am the way and the truth and the light). Within the ring, 12,000 Peruvians chewed on anticuchos (chunks of grilled beef heart) or sipped chicha (a beer made of corn). There was a hymn, a collection; then a Peruvian missionary announced that they would hear from "the man known all the world over as the Human Bible." In this setting, Baptist Preacher Billy Graham...
...Lima he took as one of his texts the familiar "God so loved the world that he gave to it his only begotten son." Billy illustrated it with an incident from his own life. Several years ago, he said, while walking in the country with his son, he had accidentally stepped on an anthill, killing many of the ants. When his distressed son asked him if he could not help the insects, Billy had said no, they were too small; only if he were to become an ant himself could he help-and he could not do that because...
...William Palne LaCroix Trophy for sportsmanship, loyalty, and team spirit was awarded to guard J. Ethan Jacobs '62, Quincy House and Lima, Ohlo...
Scattered Llamas. Peru's Indians have much to remember, unforgivingly. The country, lying along the continent's western bulge, is harsh at the best of times. The chilled winds that blow in from the cold Humboldt Current pass over the dust-dry coastal plain (Lima's last rain was 13 years ago), unload their moisture on the stony Andes. Yet in ancient times Peru flourished. The highly civilized Incas built stone-surfaced roads and bridged rivers; aqueducts spanned valleys, and canals cut through solid rock to carry irrigating water to elaborately terraced mountainside gardens. The welfare...