Word: tribuna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buenos Aires' nationalist, snide Tribuna, long accustomed to reporting Colonel Juan Domingo Perón's triumphs in Argentina, published evidence of the Colonel's expanding popularity abroad. Its correspondent reported...
...office. Its famed Jefe (Chief) and hero, Victor Raúl Haya de la Torre-now fattish and 50 and far from the wild-eyed incendiary that the U.S. took off a ship in Panama in the '20s and deported to Europe-sat in his offices at La Tribuna, nibbled an occasional avocado and formulated the party's policy...
...Moscow radio had a good word to say about the Catholic Church: its Italian priests deserved praise for their "patriotic and democratic activity ... to save the world from a new catastrophe." Not to be outdone, Rome nodded approvingly at Soviet notions of morality: "The Vatican," reported Rome's Tribuna del Popolo, "has not hidden its pleasure over the fact that Soviet films present a standard of morality much higher than films of other nations. . . . This is among consoling indications . . . that the Church may soon resume its spiritual activity in Russia...
...Chicago Tribune has been conducting a cross-country test of synthetic "Tribuna" tires (made of butadiene derived from waste sulfite liquor from the Tribune's paper mills). Driven by a Tribune reporter, the tires survived go-mile-an-hour driving in 150-degree heat in California's Death Valley, finally blew out the first shoe after 7,800 miles when the car hit a ditch across a mountain road...
...days went by. "Roosevelt's gesture," pontificated Virginio Gayda, "which means open intervention in the war against the Axis, may in the end put into motion the functions of the Tripartite Pact and cause many unpleasant surprises to England and the United States in the Pacific." Echoed La Tribuna: "Soon Japan will say her word...