Word: papered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anti-government newspaper in Guatemala City had set off the incident that excited the British Admiralty. Jeering at Guatemala's army, the paper had asked why it did not "occupy Belize and show that Guatemalan soldiers were useful for more than parades." Though President Juan José Arévalo promptly closed the paper for this insult to the army, the incident gave the British a fair reason for a show of strength. Argentina and Chile, which had been needling Britain in Antarctica (TIME, March 1), could be expected to take notice...
Prison Verses. In 1928, Blanco started the anti-Gomez weekly El Impartial, soon made it the most influential paper in Caracas. In due time a copy fell into Tyrant Gómez's hands and Editor Blanco went to jail, spent four years in grillos (leg irons). "I witnessed tortures that were incredible," he said. "I saw them sentence one man to 1,000 lashings and saw him die after...
...prison, Blanco poured out verse. His jailers gave him no paper because they knew the power of his pen; he scratched his verses on prison walls, memorized what he had written. His poems were carried outside the walls to become part of the people's lore...
...Paper statistics on the Crimson and Blue wrestling squads make the outcome of Saturday's mat-fest a meet point. Yale's tangle with Princeton, 13 to 13, throws the Crimson's loss to the Tigers, 15 to 9, into sharp relief...
Morrison, director of English, explains that the supply of competent teachers has not kept abreast of swollen high school enrollments. Blaming poor pay, long hours, and overwork, he thinks that if English teachers could put the debating team, school paper, and dramatic club under someone else's guiding hand, they would have time for more practical instruction...