Word: limon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more or less the same with all of us from that time on. The Government tried in every way-censorship, threats, violence-to prevent honest reporting. The United Press's Ed Thomas sent a short message that the rebels had captured Puerto Limon and was immediately visited by an angry little man who gave him twelve hours to leave the country. For sending a story that the rebels were winning (which they were), the Panama Star & Herald correspondent was jailed. He had to leave the country under protection of the Panamanian flag...
...patrol leader was a former Ohio college student. He gave us some warm milk sweetened with sugar and sent us on to Figueres' headquarters. There I met a Louisiana State University graduate who was Figueres' best machine-gunner and, so help me, the red-bearded Puerto Limon garrison commander was a classmate of mine at the University of California. (All three, of course, were Costa Ricans.) California '42 and I celebrated with fresh coconut juice, remarking that you certainly meet the most unexpected people in insurrections." James A. Linen
...Mexican-born, he quit college in Los Angeles to study art in Manhattan, had no dance training at all when friends sent him to Dancers Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman, a pair of experimenters whom dance historians bracket with Martha Graham. In his ten years with their group Limon was first student, then teacher and featured soloist. Limon left them only because he was ready to go out on his own. Still his adviser, Doris Humphrey runs many of his rehearsals, did the choreography for two of the four works in his present repertory (the other...
Other stockmen waged similar battles. Railroads moved all available stock cars into sidings at Hugo, Limon, Boyero, Wild Horse, Kit Carson, Cheyenne Wells and Arapahoe. Few ranchers were lucky enough to get more than a small percentage of their cattle out of the drifts, and many distant herds had not eaten for a week after the storm. As a desperate expedient, the Keystone Ranch near Karval had Army bombers try dropping baled hay to some of its cattle. After that seven Army C-47s began hay-bombing on a larger scale. As the cold weather continued, airlines passengers reported seeing...
...Will to Live. Near Limon, Colo., Mrs. Jack Cook, 81, lost in fierce wind-driven snow, kept warm and alive all through the night by placing her hand on a post and walking round & round...