Word: lima
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Lima, Peru, the censor withheld from inflammable Peruvians news of last week's mob activities at Salisbury...
...stone, young and fresh throughout the centuries as the face of a nun. Arequipa, where beggars ride horseback. La Paz, where giant mushrooms are split with an axe, used for fuel. Lake Titicaca, world's highest, where one suffers from seasickness and mountain sickness at the same time. Lima, founded on the Epiphany and shaped like a king cake. The not quite homicidal climate of the Canal Zone...
...Alberto J. Pani, Mexico's Minister of Finance, chairman of the Mexican delegation to the late World Monetary & Economic Conference; and Diego Covarrubias (first cousin of famed Caricaturist Miguel Covarrubias), son of the late Miguel Covarrubias, onetime Mexican Ambassador to Great Britain, brother-in- law of Rinaldo de Lima e Silva, Brazilian Ambassador to the U. S.; in Mexico City...
...ouarization." They call darkening "haitianization." Jean-Joseph Dauphin "ouarized" himself by accident last summer. He asked his father, a brewer of herbs, for some "ouarit" beans to cure his asthma. The ouarit, sometimes called sea bean, is an oval, black-striped red bean about the size of a large lima bean. Jean-Joseph Ysmeon Dauphin's father told him to take only a speck of ouarit at a time, because the bean was an aphrodisiac. Jean-Joseph is 57. Suffering, he decided to kill or cure. He took a whole bean each day for five days. On the sixth...
Died. Le Grand Parish, 67, retired president of Lima Locomotive Works, one-time associate of Thomas Alva Edison, inventor of freight car door locks and improved railway brakes; of a heart attack; in Hackensack...