Word: patagonian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sunday, Boston in the dimout, the Patagonian lakes, Virginia Woolf, Paul Valery. It has whimsy and charm, but it represents a hybrid culture which Victoria Ocampo has not shed...
Cautiously, like a colony of Patagonian crabs, they began to sidle ahead sideways. When Ortiz resigned, they joined his supporters in voting to refuse his resignation, thereby clearing his honor of any stain. At the same time they gained the cooperation of the Socialists in insisting that President Ortiz revise his Cabinet, last week forced his ministers to hand in their portfolios. By week's end their crablike progress had brought them to their goal. Ortiz handed over to Castillo authority to select a new Cabinet, which he promptly filled with six conservatives and only one nonconservative, a doff...