Word: peruvian
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...sleepy old town of Moyobamba, in the foothills of the Peruvian Andes, men, women & children turned out to cheer; with 17 soldiers and four civilians, Lieut. Colonel Juan Heysen was setting out to find the fabled Angayza mountain. To Peruvians familiar with the legends of Angayza, this was "Operation El Dorado...
That afternoon, still another Peruvian -Luis Elguera, chancellor of Peru's Santiago consulate-general-visited the statues. Over the protests of the Chilean carabinero on duty, he boldly made off with the Apristas' star-shaped wreaths. Discovering the theft shortly, the Apristas marched off to protest, first at the Ministry of National Defense, then to the office of Mayor Rafael Pacheco. Thundered the mayor, who had authorized their ceremonies: "An insult to O'Higgins and San Martin...
Meanwhile, the Chilean Foreign Ministry had received an angry complaint from the Peruvian embassy over the moving of the ambassador's wreaths. The chief of protocol had already donned his white gloves for a trip to the Alameda to correct this outrage when news of the stolen garlands reached him. He sensibly decided to await further developments...
About 25 years later, Henry's philosopher brother, William, saw an image of "a black-haired youth with greenish skin, entirely idiotic [like a] sculptured Egyptian cat or Peruvian mummy, moving nothing but his black eyes . . ." William turned into "a mass of quivering fear" at the thought that "That shape am I. . . potentially," and wondered how people could live "so unconscious of the pit of insecurity beneath the surface of life...
...educational institution). Besides the magazine, the society also publishes books, bulletins and maps, maintains a 20,000-volume library, sponsors geographic lectures and underwrites scientific expeditions. Grateful explorers have named after Grosvenor a Greenland sea shell, an Antarctic mountain range, an Alaskan lake, a Chinese plant and a Peruvian fish...