Word: sabana
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...place to live or work in. It's for an old Spanish governor, writing a letter to the king-with a quill pen." He prefers Jajome, the Governor's summer residence in the hills north of Ponce, or his own rented ($52 a month) cottage at Sabana liana, twelve miles outside San Juan...
During the week, Mora visited the Casa Presidencial to discuss strategy with Picado and Calderón, rode to La Sabana airport to inspect supplies arriving from Nicaragua, Mexico and the Dominican Republic, made speeches all over town. But each day he included a visit to the same small cottage on the edge of San José. Manuel Mora is a single man. "I was too poor to get married," he says. "Anyway, I wouldn't want to ask a wife to share the kind of life I lead." Daily he brought his problems to grey-haired Carmen Lyra...
...support Costa Rica's leftist government, which was beaten in last month's presidential elections, Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza sent fighter planes and transports and 400 well-drilled National Guardsmen to San Jose. At La Sabana airport, the Nicaraguans boarded...
...would soon ask for landing instructions. For several hours there was no more. Then came a message from upcountry. Thirty miles north of the field, Avianca's DC-4 nad crashed into the vertical, cloud-shrouded face of Mt. Tablazo. a 9,000-foot peak in the Sierra Sabana range. Then it fell flaming, 1,000 feet into the ravine below. The DC-4's 53 were dead, in the worst crash in airline history...