Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parliament learned last week that it was going to get one-or the shadow of one. President Higinio Morinigo, Paraguay's dictator since 1940, announced that a Constituent Assembly would be elected by year's end. There might even be an opposition. Already the buff and pink mud walls of Asuncion were frescoed with the name of Colonel Rafael Franco (an ex-President who returned to Paraguay last month after the President opened concentration camp gates). Hammer-&-sickle were everywhere, for the Commies-all 300 of them-had spent each night since their recent liberation painting walls...
Naked children scuttled to cover behind mud huts. Startled vultures lurched up from the roadway. Down the muddy roads of Venezuela's back country roared a ten-ton Fruehauf truck-trailer. Loaded with chilled beef from the Government's new slaughterhouse at inland Calabozo, it was bound on a twelve-hour haul to the meat-hungry markets of Caracas...
...were over. To one last gigantic press party went judges, prosecutors, almost everyone in Nürnberg but the defendants. Except for a brief Judgment Day reopening (Sept. 23), Faber was ready to take its little niche in journalistic history with such legendary press camps as Paris' Hotel Scribe, the mud-&-stone Press Hostel in Chungking...
...year the boom town of Rangely, Colo. has grown from 50 to 5,000 people. Oil did it: Rangely now has 105 flowing wells. Like other boom towns, Rangely is full of mud, mugs and bad whiskey-but it has a distinction all its own. Two women put out its only newspaper...
...land where churchly magnificence rules, is in plain sight of the famed Church of the Virgin of Guadalupe, chief shrine of Mexican Catholicism. The church's few small stained-glass windows are protected by chicken wire from rocks hurled by passing Catholics. Its façade is always mud-spattered. Once an attempt was made to burn the building...