Word: ricas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza passed the word: one nation after another was recognizing the government of his uncle, President Victor Román y Reyes, which he put in power last August without an election. He listed them: Costa Rica, Honduras, the Dominican Republic of Fellow-Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Paraguay. If enough of the American republics gave him the right hand of fellowship, he felt that the U.S. would follow. That would again make him a member in good standing in the Pan-American nations club...
...Costa Rica...
...wrecked the cattle industry, grasshoppers stripped the fields of southern Mexico, storms blocked main highways, drought left fields barren and brown. Last week he said: "One of my Cabinet ministers told me that all we needed to make the story of disaster complete was a fire in the Poza Rica oilfields. Pronto a phone rang. I picked it up. It was a man saying Well No. 6 at Poza Rica was afire." Last week, 13 days after it started, the Poza Rica fire was finally...
...Central Americans I have met feel a little sad about the lack of sizzle in their current revolutions. I found a doctor in Costa Rica, a newspaperman in Nicaragua and a customs official in Honduras this last trip who were all writing nostalgic biographies of William Walker, the Southern gentleman who used to make himself President of Nicaragua periodically and war upon everybody in sight. All three asked whether I knew of a good, reliable literary agent in New York...
Like many another student of languages, Publisher Stanley Burnshaw was tired of keeping his place in the front of a textbook while he hunted up definitions in the back. Last week his Dryden Press published a Spanish text, Paisaje y Hombres de América, designed to do away with all the fussing...