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Word: rios (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Argentina sported the trappings of democracy. But if Juan Domingo Peron's first six weeks as President were any indication, they were only trappings: life was not getting less totalitarian along the Rio de la Plata...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Gaucho St. George | 7/22/1946 | See Source »

...Mother Cabrini's mission was not only to America. She somehow found time, energy and means to visit and establish her order in London, Paris, Madrid, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Nicaragua...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: First U.S. Saint | 7/15/1946 | See Source »

...Some of Rio's most recent crimes have reached the top strata of lurid violence. Samples: 1) borrowing a time-worn page from the Aztecs, a boy cut out his beloved's heart; 2) using a sharp hatchet, a man chopped his wife into small pieces as she lay in bed with their two-year-old daughter. Last week the Latin American Congress of Criminologists picked Rio as the site of their 1946 convention...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BRAZIL: Lurid Top | 7/1/1946 | See Source »

Stiff Proposition. In Rio de Janeiro, striking medical students picketed their school with a sign reading: "We want more bodies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 10, 1946 | 6/10/1946 | See Source »

...gave Braniff Airways a route from Mexico City down the west coast of South America, then across to Buenos Aires and Rio de Janeiro. It gave Colonial Airlines permission to fly from Washington and New York to Bermuda-much to the surprise of Colonial, which had applied only for a route from New York. Again on presidential orders, CAB gave Eastern

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Truman v. Pan Am | 6/3/1946 | See Source »

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