Word: rams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...noon of counting day, Batista knew that the opposition candidate, Dr. Ramón Grau San Martin, had defeated Batista's close friend and protégé, Dr. Carlos Saladrigas. Not since 1913 had Cuban Government candidates lost at the polls...
...Argentine Way. The U.S. is apt to have long-continued trouble with Argentina. This prospect was further indicated last week by another Argentinian, Ramón Lavalle, a liberal Argentine journalist and ex-diplomat (who has anglicized his name to rhyme with "canal"). Lavalle wrote in the March issue of the Atlantic Monthly...
...first time in 13 centuries, a group of Mohammedans last week made the pilgrimage to Mecca (fifth religious duty of every True Believer) by air.* From Algiers two planes carried 25 Moslems to Mecca for Bairam, solemn annual festival at which every pilgrim sacrifices a ram, a he-goat, a cow or a camel...
...deck: "Scratch one pig-boat-am searching for more." The Borie found another huge pigboat on the surface. Cried a signalman: "My God, what is it, the Bremen?" In ten to 30 seconds the Bone's guns swept the sub's deck. The destroyer leaped forward to ram, went partly over, her bow straddling the U-boat's forward deck. There she stuck. For ten feverish minutes the Borie poured metal from her 4-in. guns, her tommy guns, shotguns and pistols at the Nazis and their sub's steel sides. One signalman banged away with...
...prejudiced Argentina the cankerous issue of neutrality broke out again last week. For the second time war and peace hung delicately in the balance -more delicately even than at the time of the revolt which put the Army and President Pedro Ramirez in power and "prudently neutral" ex-President Ramón Castillo in the discard (TIME, June 14). For this time the showdown was clearly between the "rupturists" and "anti-rupturists" in the Ramirez Government...