Word: punta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Order of the Aztec Eagle, Miguel Miranda stood at his right hand. But down the hall at Government Palace, four assistants busily cleared Miranda's belongings out of his office, and at week's end Miranda flew off to play on the beach at Uruguay's Punta del Este...
That was all González needed. With his family, aides and two newspapermen, he sailed for Punta Arenas, 1,400 miles south of Santiago. Once at sea, the reporters were permitted to radio that "the President was steaming south to take personal possession of the Chilean antarctic." González sailed right past Punta Arenas. At Fortescue, near Chile's southern tip, his party boarded the Chilean navy transport President Pinto...
...standard globe, plus checking with tables of airline distances, shows that -even allowing for a Kiska stopover-the Japs would find Minneapolis at least 300 miles farther from Tokyo than is San Diego. And, similarly measured on great circles, Chicago is at least 1,000 statute miles closer to Punta Gallinas, Colombia, than to the nearest Siberian point...
Believing her doomed, her unhurt 39-man crew pulled off, beefing at her as a Jonah (on this her maiden northbound voyage-motors dead off Punta del Este; motor repairs at Rio; propeller trouble at Recife; 41 days for a 16-day run). The captain and part of his crew were mildly embarrassed when a U.S. man-of-war picked them up after two nights and a day, informed them that cranky, stubborn Victoria had refused to sink and was drifting derelict, and put them back aboard her. There they found the rest of the crew, calmly awaiting their arrival...
...Punta Arenas, world's southernmost city (pop. 24,307), a sheep ranchers'center, the Antarctic exiles re-entered the green world of vegetables, trees, rocks, beer, money, steaks, French friend potatoes, lettuce-and women. Shaved, dressed in khaki shirts and trousers, with money to spend, the men piled ashore, pushed aside photographers and interviewers as they set out to fulfill long-considered plans. One man had sworn he would get the autograph of the first woman he saw. But she sailed past the wharf in an automobile, would not stop. Their plans were not all alike...