Word: rios
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...President of France did not say a word as the results came in; he just grinned. Plump Vincent Auriol was an old campaigner himself. "Toward the end," a member of his staff confided, "he was giggling." In Rio de Janeiro, 0 Mundo, called Harry Truman's victory "the most sensational news since the launching of the atomic bomb." In London (though U.S. shares dipped), British stocks went up. London's socialist Tribune took credit for not being too greatly surprised, republished a July cartoon showing Harry Truman feeling fine...
Except for the depot, there are only five buildings in Marshall Pass, Colo. Twice a week the train with the mail from Salida comes chuffing up the Denver & Rio Grande Western, snuffling around the bare ribs of the Colorado mountains like an old hound dog on a cold trail. In the quiet at 11,000 feet, when the wind is right, Postmaster Gus Latham can hear the train coming about an hour before it arrives. Marshall Pass (pop. 11) is the U.S.'s smallest post office. Gus, who has lived in Marshall Pass for the last...
...enough to drive a farmer to drink. North of the Rio Grande, bumper cotton and sugar-beet crops were ready for harvest, and U.S. farmers were faced with the nightmare of losing it all for want of extra farm hands. Meanwhile, jammed into the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juárez, just below the river, nearly 8,000 Mexican workers waited to be registered as seasonal braceros and to go on north to the harvest. But nothing was being done to send them north; they were stranded...
Since that victory, the Legion's Dominican colonels and generals have been drilling 150 Nicaraguan youths on Figueres' Rio Conejo farm, just outside San José. For Figueres (who knows that Costa Rican counter-revolutionaries are also drilling on Tacho's side of the border), the situation has been a little embarrassing. The Caribbean Legion and its friends have been looking for a way to get on with their business without leaving Figueres on the spot...
...travels. "I started out at Des Moines, at a plowing contest," said ex-Plowboy Harry Truman, "and there were just about ten acres of people in front of the stand where I spoke ... I went to Denver and there were 100,000 people . . . went on down the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and over to Salt Lake City...