Word: parana
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...catapulted into the air, bounced off rocks and tree stumps and landed in a terrifying whirlpool. But as he crawled out at Glendive he had crawled into the record books. The longest fresh-water swim on record up to last week was 281 miles, accomplished on Argentina's Parana River...
...Inland Paraguay has a navy of five gunboats plying the Paraguay and Parana Rivers: rival Bolivia has no navy...
...description of the wild beauty of a waterfall on the Rio Parana is as much a jewel of writing as his tiny humming bird is a "jewel of nature." Following several colorful and exceedingly virile paragraphs, it was positively shocking in its clear beauty, its excellent choice of words, its exquisite phrases...
...South America, had even reached Europe. About 1520 a Portuguese soldier named Alejo Garcia led an expedition across Brazil and Paraguay into the Inca country, was killed by his Indian allies on his return. Backed by a shady ring of international speculators, Sebastian Cabot led another group up the Parana River to Paraguay in 1528, sent the representatives of his backers for more support as soon as the first gold and the first llamas were en countered. Fifteen members of his party pushed on, encountered desperate hard ships, crossed the Cordillera in an audacious move, reached the Incas, hurried back...
...Spanish and Portuguese South American Empires broke up into great modern states in the early 19th Century, two bobtail leftovers were Bolivia and Paraguay. Portuguese Brazil did not bother to annex the lazy, primitive Guarani Indians sweltering in the low plateaus and lagoon-lands between the Paraguay and Parana Rivers. After Paraguay became an independent nation, the Spanish family of Lopez took it over and willfully plunged it into the "heroic" war of 1864-70, reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred and leprous...