Word: shoestringing
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Chile, the "shoestring country" that U.S. children learn about from their fourth-grade geography books, is in the toils of a silent and hopeful revolution, no less tense and dramatic for being economic rather than political. The astonishing evidence is that a 40-year-old inflation, moving with express-train...
Decked with flags and resounding with fireworks, Guatemala City observed a festive anniversary this week. One year ago Colonel Carlos Castillo Armas, the exiled officer who organized a shoestring revolution and ousted the Red-run government of Guatemala, returned in triumph to his nation's capital, later announced that...
Compensation-in terms of revivals and a good deal else-came from off-Broadway. Last season's white hope, the Phoenix Theater, turned a rather dull grey -though thanks to Comic Nancy Walker, who was very funny when she had material and in places when she hadn't...
The game was over anyway. Willie Mays's fine shoestring catch, which made it official, was something of an anticlimax. The Dodgers, with the problem of stretching their winning streak finally behind them, could settle down for the long season's scramble for the pennant.
While still in his teens, Café Filho began contributing angry, something-must-be-done articles on the plight of the poor to local newspapers. At 22 he started a shoestring paper of his own, O Jornál do Norte. Other papers in northeast Brazil were soon reprinting his...