Word: tiempo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incite violence on a national scale. As their hottest congressional campaign in years moved into high gear last week, sober Colombians were dismayed to see the vicious old cycle repeating itself. In three months, the number of murders attributed to politics had risen to 40. Warned staid El Tiempo: "[Such] violence is the worst thing that can happen in a democratic country...
Bogotá's sober, influential El Tiempo spoke the Colombian mind: "Never has the country been in such a trance, and it is all due to the impact of the conference. We hope that March won't find us as January was going to catch...
...excitable Colombian press had an anti-U.S. field day. El Tiempo talked of a "bad neighbor" policy, dredged up such old standbys as "dollar diplomacy," "manifest destiny," the "big stick." El Espectador accused the U.S. of "economic aggression." The reason for the uproar was that the U.S. and Colombia had got themselves tangled in an unseemly row over shipping coffee...
...dispatch was that the Government had sued to collect multimillion-dollar duties on newsprint that oppositionist La Prensa and La Nación had imported over the last nine years. (By law, newsprint for "cultural publications" is duty-free.) In Bogotá, Colombia, El Tiempo picked up the dispatch and ran a thundering editorial calling on the press of the hemisphere to lay Juan Perón's press-badgering before the Rio Conference...
Epitaph. In Bogota, Colombia, the newspaper El Tiempo, deploring the Texas City disaster, editorialized: "Texas, an important city of the U.S., was completely destroyed by a fearful fire. Nothing remains of Texas, the cradle of all the cowboys of the screen...