Word: mats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warrior people, the Paraguayan dislikes work. He will cut down a tree, but his wife has to carry it home. He hates to garden, so subtropical Asunción imports most of its vegetables. He makes an average $6 a year selling cotton, the hides of cattle, yerba mat é(for Argentina's tea-like national drink) and tannin from quebracho. Politics is pretty new to him, and the big talk of an alliance with Argentina in a bloque austral is outside his world. But if Argentines, or anybody else, get fresh, he is perfectly confident that with...
...week's revelry opened with a parade of 70,000 Afghan soldiers accoutered with German helmets and a weird assortment of old and new British matériel; above the parade wobbled a rickety umbrella of old Italian biplanes. Tribesmen who had lugged a season's karakul skins into market bet their season's earnings on horse races and ram fights. The Western influence was apparent in the gambling, too: the most popular gadget shot darts from an air gun at a moving disc...
...Leased Brazil. (His admiration for U.S. weapons was not so cynical as some supposed; the effectiveness of U.S. planes and tanks had startled him out of his pre-D-day conviction that "Europe never could be invaded.") General Eisenhower received Von der Becke courteously, looked over his list of matériel requests, then said that the decision rested with the State Department...
Like chicks flocking to the mother hen when the storm clouds gather, Russia's satellite leaders were coming to Moscow for encouragement-and for gold, food, arms, war matériel-as the two worlds on either side of the Stettin-Trieste line braced themselves...
...rest will be retired from active service. Six will be manned with enough personnel to keep their facilities ready for use as soon as sufficient men and matériel could be shipped in. They are Kodiak and Attu in the Aleutians, Okinawa on the strategic northwestern frontier, the great sheltered anchorages of Eniwetok, Kwajalein and Truk. The others, buttoned up with only a fire and security watch: Dutch Harbor, Tinian, Majuro in the Marshalls, Samoa, the Australian mandate of Manus, Palau, and Puerto Princesa in the Philippines...