Word: maracay
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Maracay, a malaria-ridden coffee town, was made the proving ground. DDT squads were recruited, and a fine, white-stone laboratory, office and warehouse were built. Some 100,000 children were examined and more than three million home visits were made. In time Maracay was declared malaria-free and the area of treatment was expanded...
...junketeers missed the overture. The furious bugling, the quick rattle of gunfire, the bomb burst at dawn at Maracay Airport barely disturbed them as they slept nearby in the sprawling Hotel Jardin. To the New York Daily News's John O'Donnell, the bomb sounded like a distant door slam. He went back to sleep...
Packed back to Caracas, the newsmen were told by amiable, bespectacled Provisional President Rómulo Betancourt that the revolt was over and that "all is O.K." in Venezuela. The 200-odd rebels who had captured the Maracay Airport gave up that afternoon. The lone plane crew that tried to bomb the Presidential Palace in Caracas had missed, and the scattering revolutionary outbursts in the interior found little popular support. President Betancourt had himself crimped rebel strategy: instead of going to Maracay for graduation exercises at Venezuela's West Point of the Air-and facing capture-he had wisely...