Word: panama
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pacific coasts. It was a great victory for Nicaraguan Dictato Tacho Somoza, convalescing in Boston after a major abdominal operation. "I am awfully happy," said Tacho. "Nicaragua is the best friend the U.S. has-and I love that road. It can transport troops across the isthmus if the Panama Canal should be blown...
Piloting the Coal Queen, from Morgantown, W. Va. downstream (north) to Pittsburgh, took a little doing, what with pushing barges through the locks and threading through more traffic tonnage than passes through the Panama or Suez Canals. There wasn't much that didn't catch Pilot Bissell's eye, from the architecture (mostly horrendous) of the houses ashore to a little girl in a spring hat on a slate pile. He remembers the valley's favorite drink (cheap rye and a beer chaser), the variety of foreign tongues heard in saloons. "Oh, it's some...
...faded with grief after her first son died in 1921. After her second son, John Eisenhower, was born, she never quite conquered a feeling of anxiety for him. But Mamie seemed a born soldier's wife. She hustled along through the years-to Camp Colt, Pa., Panama, Fort Leavenworth, Kans., Washington, Paris, Manila -like other Army wives, a one-woman cheering section for her particular soldier...
...Twisted Isthmus . . . In population the land Chichi runs is one of the world's smallest nations. In area, it is also tiny, stretching for just 450 miles along the narrow isthmus linking the Americas -an isthmus so curiously twisted that from Panama City the sun is seen to rise out of the Pacific. The land's best known feature, the canal, runs through the ten-mile-wide, U.S.-controlled Canal Zone which splits the republic. In the bisected nation, politics are fought out in a manner as twisted as the land's geography. Since the last election...
...just a year ago that Chichi had to throw out one of his presidential stand-ins. Arnulfo Arias, Panama's Messianic champion demagogue, had begun to feel that being President made him boss; he plotted to extend his term. Remón's cops laid siege to the palace, got Arnulfo's surrender after 18 persons were killed. Chichi put a malleable dairyman into office, and began to listen to urgent advice from his wife Cecilia to run for President himself...