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Word: llamas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...average native on the altiplano were to cook his meals over a cow-dung fire, the cow dung would have to be imported from the Argentine pampas. Cows are pretty scarce in Bolivia as a whole, and virtually nonexistent on the altiplano. The natives there use llama dung for fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1953 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

A.C.N. DE VOOGD Vancouver, B.C. ¶TIME'S apologies to the hardy and resourceful llama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 5, 1953 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

...broadcast, and television's Dagmar, surrounded by a crowd of 7,000, had her automobile license plates ripped off as souvenirs. Inside the air-conditioned stores, shoppers snatched at bargains (chicken at 39? a lb.), boggled at such curiosities as ostrich eggs at $45 apiece, llama steaks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE: The Supermerchants | 8/20/1951 | See Source »

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