Word: paso
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Tired. In El Paso, Tex., a girl explained why her car crashed: "Everybody was arguing, and I was tired of it, so I just drove into the gate to stop them...
...hotel lobby in Santa Fe one very cold night and met Colonel Donovan. He said: "Where are you going in such a hurry?" I said: "I am going up to Major Burges' room and get me the biggest drink of Bourbon whiskey that ever came out of El Paso-come on and go with me." He said: "No, however much I would like to, yet I carry a commission in the Department of Justice and I have never taken a drink in the United States since I carried that commission, and will not." He was then Assistant...
Much water has flowed since 1894 between Juarez, Mexico, and El Paso, Tex., on the silty ever-changing banks of the Rio Grande-but not enough to wash the word chamizal from long Mexican memories. In Mexico City's Chamber of Deputies last week Deputy Professor (of the National University) José Betancourt Pérez rose to spout: "Mexico cannot believe in the Good Neighbor policy if the United States does not comply with its obligations in the Chamizal case...
...counterclaims. In 1911 a Canadian arbitrator ruled that the international boundary followed the course of the river as it was in 1864, but where that might have been, no one knew for sure. So Chamizal has stayed in decisively under the Stars & Stripes as a district of South El Paso...
Ernie Pyle went to London to cover World War II as a tourist, to write about it as he used to write about the summer wind that blows across the prairies, about folks in Guayaquil, El Paso, Kalamazoo. He had been there just four days last week when Nazi bombers turned the city into a lake of fire-and overnight turned Tourist Pyle into a war correspondent...