Word: rio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intervention in Korea [by 'our' Hinton meant the U.S. intervention] is looked on very much as we would look on Chinese armies driving to the Rio Grande. [But] always I found people, even total strangers, friendly to me, an American. They wanted to know all about Lin Ken, 'who freed the slaves,' and Lo Sze Fu (Roosevelt), 'who wanted one world...
...eyes of Texas have been upon Governor Allan Shivers and his campaign for an unprecedented third term. His opponent in the Democratic primary. Attorney Ralph Yarborough of Austin, uncovered the embarrassing fact that Shivers had turned a $425,000 profit on a $25,000 investment in a strange Rio Grande Valley land deal eight years ago. Yarborough, who lost to Shivers in 1952 by a margin of almost 2 to 1, also kept reminding Texas Democrats that Shivers had swung Democratic Texas behind Dwight Eisenhower in the 1952 presidential election...
...LINCOLN GALE Rio de Janeiro
Trade Mission. Guided tours for businessmen seeking Latin American markets are being sponsored by Pan American-Grace Airways. The 30-day, 13,500-mile trips are being scheduled to give executives time to look over markets and line up distributors in Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Santiago, La Paz, Lima, Quito, Panama City, etc. Price: about...
...once a silly old noodle of his acquaintance, a pseudo-philosopher named Quincas Borba, dies and leaves him an immense fortune on the sole condition that he look after a dog, also named Quincas Borba. Rubião exuberantly grabs the money and the dog, goes flying down to Rio...