Word: os
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Installment payments took a painful $13 monthly, for Pedro, like most porteños, bought the family clothes (including his own neat, dark suit) on a ten payment credit plan. Lately Pedro had turned a few pesos by keeping books for a nearby almacén (store), and this, with the $35 a month earned by elder son Guillermo, brought the Pisani budget into precarious balance. Pedro shuddered to think of what would happen if sickness struck his home...
...huge four-engined Sunderland flying boat last week approached Buenos Aires from the east, lazily circled the city. Along the Plata estuary, 30,000 enthusiastic Porteños watched the plane land smoothly. Then out hopped the plane's proud owner and Pan American Airways' newest South American competitor, Argentine shipping tycoon Alberto Dodero...
Those who peopled the two worlds had little in common. The porteños (people of the port) were accustomed of an evening to squeeze themselves into giant teahouses and chrome-and-glass movie palaces. The peón of the "camp," working for his keep and a little more on the great estancias, found few with whom to gather; even his rooster crowed only twice, because there was no answer...
South of Manila, 11th Division paratroopers and amphibious forces struck suddenly for the prison camp at Los Baños, 25 miles behind the Japanese lines. They caught the darkly sinister commandant, Lieut. Konishi, lining up his charges for morning roll call. They killed the lieutenant and his 243 guards, rescued 2,146 sick and starving civilian internees...
...symbolic. U.S. troops stormed the castle in 1847, and to Mexicans. Chapultepec means much the same thing that Bunker Hill means to the U.S. Among its defenders were teen-age cadets of the Mexican Military College, who are revered to this day in Mexico as the "Niños Héroes" (Boy Heroes) of Chapultepec...