Word: os
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night before his ship sailed, posters appeared on city walls summoning Porteños to a farewell to "a great friend of all Argentines." They responded. Next day at the dock, a band alternately played the Argentine national anthem and the Star-Spangled Banner. President Perón, his Cabinet, and the diplomatic corps arrived and were ushered aboard...
That was not all. Last week, Quiteños bounced over their cobbled streets in comfortable buses of the newly inaugurated municipal bus system. Gone are the jitneys which bus-line owners rashly garaged last year to compel higher fares...
...years, bullfighting has been Lima's favorite spectacle. The great Pizarro, according to tradition, killed the first bull in a fight before the cathedral in the Plaza de Armas; the old Lima bull ring, built in 1765, is said by Limeños to be the world's oldest. But never has Lima known a fighter like its own Conchita Cintron, the world's greatest female torero and mistress, to boot, of the art of rejoneo (bullfighting with a short spear from horseback...
Limeños remember Conchita as a wiry tomboy who, at eight, learned riding from the great Portuguese rejoneador, Ruy da Camara. He taught her also the bullfighting art, first in Peru, later in Portugal, where she appeared in a ring at twelve. For eight years now she has fought in the big time-in Spain and Portugal, in Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru...
Nevertheless, La Prensa is still a formidable institution. Foreign governments implicitly accept its news. Reporters work gladly in its clublike editorial rooms for less than they could get elsewhere. Its circulation paces the field in Latin America. Porteños guess that despite skying costs the paper makes a million and a half a year...