Word: quebracho
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...over tea in his Paris home and recalling his 1920s youth in dictator-ridden Guatemala. The leaders, he says, "kept themselves hidden, spinning evil from secret corners like spiders." In protest, he created his "literature of commitment" to call attention to poverty and death on banana plantations and in quebracho forests...
...Southern clouds on the 30th of April, 1882, and could compare them in his memory with the mottled streaks on a book in Spanish binding he had only seen once and with the outlines of the foam raised by an oar in the Rio Negro the night before the Quebracho uprising." Borges contrasts this world of heightened perceptions with the real world of clumsy generalizations. In Deutsches Requiem, a commandant of a Nazi concentration camp becomes an example of an overthinking man. Stifling his feelings and perceptions, he justifies the slaughter of Jews because he believes that war purifies mankind...
This week, as his second elected term began, Don Federico found his country little changed. Smugglers were running much of the nation's cattle across the border into Brazil to escape unrealistic price controls on beef. Bureaucrats were selling illegal import and export licenses. And the important quebracho, tobacco and cotton trade with Argentina was logjammed against Juan Perón's nationalistic economy. Now exiles have become Paraguay's principal export; of the 1,500,000 population, more than 100,000 (some estimates run up to 500,000) are refugees abroad. Most are members...
...century, the people of the region have loudly demanded a trans-Andean railway; for more than a quarter of a century they have been building it. Last week they had it. A coca-chewing Indian had slung a sledge, a last spike had bitten into an iron-hard quebracho tie, and Salta in Argentina was linked to Antofagasta in Chile...
...capital, would be a long time recovering from the latest revolution, its 27th in 41 years. Much of the nation's bumper crop of cotton, earlier estimated at 40,000.tons, had gone unpicked because workers feared conscription. Cattle had been slaughtered or driven away; production of quebracho extract, an export staple used in tanning, had dropped...