Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Carcharinus fired the ambitions of Harvard fish-fanciers a year ago, and one was caught in Lake Nicaragua, only to be sunk by a barbarous Hun submarine on his way north. Then President Somoza caught three of them, but lack of shipping facilities decayed everything but the President's snapshots. The last attempt pulled out "C. N.", as he's familiarly called by those who love...
...Corps, yet he has been known to wear the breath out of younger, slim-waisted officers. A strict disciplinarian in the field, Barney Vogel is an inveterate party goer and party giver-a combination of inclinations usually not found in the Marine Corps. Experience gained in the jungles of Nicaragua and the mountains of Haiti should serve him well in the approaches north of Guadalcanal...
...Fruit's troubles are also the troubles of Central America, 80% of whose monthly crop of 100,000 tons of bananas rots in the fields for lack of shipping to the U.S. Broke and disillusioned, the people of five banana-exporting Central American republics (Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Honduras) are now angry at the United Nations' policy that annihilated their chief export but failed to provide them with any other means of employment. The problem is all the more acute since Government revenues, which might be used for unemployment relief, in most cases are largely dependent...
...President's desk sped telegrams of congratulation and good wishes: from the Presidents of Peru and Nicaragua, from the Prime Minister of Canada, from plain citizens everywhere. Indirectly came news that Russia's Joseph Stalin, long bitter at United Nations delay in opening a second front, now spoke glowingly of the African offensive and the "Anglo-Soviet-American coalition...
...first and longest-standing boss was fiery, bombastic Smedley D. Butler, famed soldier-orator of the last generation (TIME, June 20, 1927). Vandegrift served with Old Gimlet Eye at Leon and Coyotepe Hill in Nicaragua; landed with him at Veracruz; fought with him in Haiti; helped pacify the Chinese Nationalists in Shanghai and Tientsin, in the late '20s. Through these years he was the apple of Old Gimlet Eye's eye, and earned himself the nickname of Sunny...