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Word: pampa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Santa Ana, Calif. Register; the Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph; the Bucyrus, Ohio Telegraph-Forum; the Pampa, Tex. Daily News; the Clovis, N.Mex. News-Journal; the Marysville, Calif. Appeal-Democrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: According to Holies | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...Janeiro for the first time in six years, a tango swept the town. Cariocas crowded the Teatro Carlos Gomez, an old vaudeville house in the old quarter of downtown Rio to hear a pretty, black-eyed Argentine import named Chola Luna sing the hit tune Adiós, Pampa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heading North | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

Just why Brazilians had temporarily deserted their lively sambas for a sad-sweet tango about the pampas seemed explainable only by Brazilian saudades-a special Latin kind of homesickness for things and places they have never seen. When last heard from, Adiós, Pampa Mia was heading north. U.S. citizens could get set for a tango in the jukeboxes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heading North | 9/9/1946 | See Source »

...depended on how quickly the U.S. could forget the way Argentina's rulers cottoned up to Nazi Germany in World War II. For Russia had sent a trade delegation to Buenos Aires presumably to offer Soviet tractors, trucks and combines for wool, hides, and blooded pampa bulls to build up Russia's war-depleted herds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Per | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...pyrotechnics topped them all. At Tahoka, disagreement over football policy ended in a tizzy when the school superintendent got his head bashed, the principal quit, the coach resigned, excited parents staged a mass meeting, 19 members of the football squad turned in their books and left school. At Pampa, one of the state's oldest and best referees made a game-end dash for it, flanked by protecting police, beat it out of town with a hooting mob panting at his heels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Pigskin Pyrotechnics | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

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