Word: parana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That sentence revealed Paraguay's strategy. It forced Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Peru to declare neutrality, thus cutting off landlocked Bolivia from importing munitions. Paraguay on the broad Parana River, which like the Amazon is an international waterway, can bring supplies straight up from...
...without a struggle. The chief and three others they shot. They then stole $40 from the police safe, took the electric light plant and telegraph office, began parading the streets calling for recruits. Few joined, but for 18 hours the Kennedys held La Paz. The uprising never crossed the Parana River, which separates Entre Rios Province from the rest of Argentina. In Concordia and Concepcion del Uruguay, police dispersed bands of rebels. Troops heading for La Paz knew no better than to telegraph ahead. The Kennedys got their message, quickly left for their ranch, leaving all but a dozen...
When the Prince of Wales was in Buenos Aires last month, it was known he wanted to take a speed boat ride with famed Kaye Don in Miss England II (TIME, March 30). Although the Argentine Navy offered to sweep clear a course on the Parana River, the prospect aroused anxiety in British and Argentine sporting publics. Miss England II was the boat in which the late Sir Henry Segrave was killed last year when she hit a floating branch and sank on Lake Windermere (TIME, June 23). Wales got no ride. Last week, with H. R. H. safely attending...
...repaired, shipped to Buenos Aires to race as a feature of the British Empire Trade Exposition. In order that Miss England II should not hit another log and go down with the Prince of Wales aboard, the Argentine Navy offered to sweep the three-mile course on the Parana River free of all driftwood...
...tale of a fire in the pampas grass. "Rosaura" is a cruelly sensitive story of a young girl's hopeless love and suicide, so feverish that it quivers between bright beauty and absurdity. The last of the seven, "The Return of Anaconda," carries a boa constrictor down the Parana River in a flood, has the jungle talking, raises the gooseflesh. All the stories are delicately translated by Anita Brenner, gain spice in the weird black-and-whites of Mordecai Gorelik...