Word: rams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...obvious reason for omitting Argentina and Brazil is that they are on the east coast and Mr. Wallace is touring the west coast. Nevertheless, the omission of Argentina served an equally obvious purpose: its pro-Allied masses were once again reminded that President Ramón Castillo is in the bad graces of Washington and of Henry Wallace...
...come aboard again if the Churchill ever sank a U-boat. The destroyer's crew did not forget. One night last June, as the Churchill patrolled off Venezuela, a dark shape loomed ahead. The battle signal sounded. Men sprang to action stations. The Churchill swerved, tried to ram the foe. Luckily, she missed. What looked like a hulking U-boat turned out to be tiny Lasola Island, ten feet high, 200 feet long...
...fait, Or di ram parts ui uach uer so ga lant
...worse, her players were booed, assaulted by Uruguayan spectators as "Nazis." A heat wave killed seven people, felled 461 with sunstroke. In Montevideo the Inter-America Hemisphere Defense Committee made public specific instances of Nazi espionage in Argentine territory. Chile broke with the Axis (see above), leaving President Ramón Castillo's government the sole neutral in the Western Hemisphere...
...Argentina the United Nations lost a friend this week and "prudently neutral" President Ramón S. Castillo an enemy. Death took big, two-fisted General Agustín Justo, 66, ex-President and outstanding candidate for reelection in November. The cause: cerebral hemorrhage...