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Word: os (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monument on which he had laid his flowers bore the names of Los Niños Héroes-six teen-age cadets who died when U.S. troops took Chapultepec in 1847. According to defiant legend, five had stabbed themselves rather than surrender to the invaders from the North. A sixth had leaped to death from a parapet, wrapped in the castle's battle flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Fiesta | 3/17/1947 | See Source »

Because none of the 27 laws enacting the Five-Year Plan had yet been passed, Figuerola's job was still pretty much a promotion job. Last week, as he and other Peronistas hopefully plugged the plan as the complete cure for Argentine troubles, Porteños told a story that pointed up the need to do something...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Viva Per | 12/16/1946 | See Source »

Constituted in 1935 os Local 431 of the American Federation of Teachers, the group now under President F. O. Matthiessen, professor of English, has as it chief objectives the improvement of teaching conditions in general within the University and the maintainance of a link between university teachers, secondary school teachers, and the trade union movement in general...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Teachers Union Opens Membership Drive as Invitations Enter Mails | 11/4/1946 | See Source »

...claiming the colony, and the whole business has now become a matter of national pride. Said one British official: "We bloody well ought to let them have it; it would serve them right." That might be the official view, but if it came to a vote most Beliceños would probably stay British...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Britain by the Bay | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

...Fruehaufs highballing twice daily to Calabozo, Arocha had ten white-painted DC-3s flying chilled beef to the capital from distant llano towns like Ciudad Bolivar, on the Orinoco, and San Fernando de Apure. This week work was expected to start on another slaughterhouse at Barinas. Already caraqueños found llano meat in the markets at 27? a Ib. Last spring they had paid three times as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Cowboy Comeback | 9/16/1946 | See Source »

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