Word: se
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Señora Maria Unzue de Alvear was one of the few women listed in Argentina's Who's Who. A plump, little old lady who lived out her declining years in piety and good works, she gave an estimated 1,000,000 pesos ($112,000) a year to charity. She could well afford it; her family, which had given Argentina one of its most distinguished Presidents (Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, 1922-28), owned a good million acres of rich grazing land...
...evening, passing up a Club Unión reception, the President took in the dancing in the Parque Central. As he sat on a park bench watching the capital's famously handsome señoritas walk by arm in arm, some drunks raised a cheer for the government's bitterest enemy, exiled ex-President Rafael Calderón Guardia. Ulate forbade their arrest. "Let them viva whom they wish," he said...
...police station he identified himself as an elementary-school teacher, 45 years old. He had thought only to bring home a tiny chip of the mounting for his family to see. When no one appeared to press charges against him, he was released. "Señor," said a wondering desk sergeant, "you would have risked less by jumping off the top of the cathedral...
When brisk, breezy U.S. Ambassador Stanton Griffis made his first official call on Señora Perón at her ministry last month, he met Tambour and presently suggested that the dog ought to have a mate. The Señora agreed. Griffis telephoned his New York secretary, and within 48 hours Sylvia, a six-month-old silver poodle, was on her way to Buenos Aires...
...recommendation has yet to be approved by CAB and the White House. But after listening to twelve months' tedious argument, Examiner Wrenn had come to some carefully weighed conclusions. Said he: none of the evidence showed that "the reduction of from three to two U.S. [overseas] carriers would per se violate the established policy of regulated competition...