Word: se
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...classic first step by which dictatorship is imposed upon a people. By its very nature, dictatorship moves inexorably to stifle the voice of a free press and to destroy the sources of trustworthy information. . . . In following in this respect the pattern endorsed by Stalin and Hitler, Mussolini and Franco, Señor Perón has embarked on a course of infinite danger to his country...
...Crown Heights Labor School, explained his church's position: "Business is not the property of its owners; it is a society in which stockholders and employees are social partners and must work together. Capitalism and the right to a profit the church does not condemn per se, but it does condemn unbridled free enterprise...
...night. Next morning, the lovely, cattle-dotted valley of Derborence was choked with the 150,000,000 cubic feet of rock that had loomed over the region as the Devil's Tower. In Aire nearly every house had lost a husband, son or brother. Thérèse, who was pregnant, had lost her young husband Antoine, and her uncle Seraphin, with whom he shared...
...deposits annually some five kilos (11 Ibs.) of guano. Steamers passing the Chincha Islands are forbidden to blow their whistles lest the birds take off, fertilizing the sea. The guanayes have a bad habit of flying low after their takeoff, and their tailfeathers brush guano off the cliffs. Señor Llosa is ringing the steep-sided islands with walls, to force the birds to gain altitude more quickly...
...Chincha Islands are already playing host to almost all the birds they can hold. What the guano birds need now, says Señor Llosa, is more staging areas. The climate of southern Peru is favorable; the sea is full of fish. But there are virtually no islands there, and when the birds try to nest on the mainland, foxes eat their eggs. So Señor Llosa is building ten-foot walls across the peninsulas, making artificial islands for the birds to use as bases. He even dreams of parking the birds some day far at sea on anchored...