Word: rican
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Somoza feared that those guns were now to be turned on him. From his hilltop command post overlooking Managua, he ordered a daily air patrol flown over the Gulf of Fonseca. He hustled supplies south to his National Guard patrols, who crossed the border and shot up a Costa Rican town. He cabled every Latin American republic that Nicaraguan exiles were meeting in Puerto Limón, Costa Rica, organizing an expedition to overthrow...
...American universities are in the toils of Big Business, based mostly on a quasi-review of a book which appeared two years ago. And the conclusion--that students and faculty should somehow gain control of University policies--is as breezily vague as the unqualified condemnation of America's Puerto Rican "imperialism" in the article that follows. This general tone of militant outrage, coupled with the total absence of any attempt at objectivity, makes "The New Student" more of a screeching political pamphlet than an undergraduate magazine honestly out to interest--and persuade--the student body...
...week that the U.S. wanted Nicaragua at the Bogota conference, Washington's latinos guessed that the U.S. was at last ready to recognize Dictator Somoza's government. They were wrong. Later, to shut off the guessing, white-haired Ambassador Dawson telephoned 17 embassies (but not the Costa Rican, Honduran or Dominican, whose governments recognized Somoza last year) and made it clear that inviting a neighbor to a neighborhood powwow did not mean approval of the way the neighbor acted...
...territory's half million population, Caucasians-not including 32,000 Army, Navy and Air Force personnel-comprise 33.4%. The rest: Japanese, 32.4%; part-Hawaiian, 12.4%; Filipinos, 10.4% ; Chinese, 5.9% ; pure Hawaiian, 2.1% ; Koreans, 1.4% ; Puerto Rican, .8% ; all others...
...roommate, Puerto Rican Miss Margarita Silva-Santiago, pointed out that her friend was "in a terribly nervous condition. She had fallen back in her studies because of fear of not passing...