Word: quitandinha
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegates had dispersed into committees to thresh out compromises when a U.S. Congressman from Pittsburgh, James G. Fulton, 51, strolled into the bar at conference headquarters, the luxurious Quitandinha Hotel, and gathered a group of reporters around him. "I want to talk about financial aid from my country to Latin America," he announced quietly. What Fulton talked about, then and later, went off like a land mine under the official U.S. policy and its main author, George Humphrey...