Word: tropical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bandsman. But Ernesto Lecuona's biggest popularity lies south, of the Tropic of Cancer. There his eminence is fabulous. Cuba has two other top-rank songwriters: Moises Simons (The Peanut Vendor) and Eliseo Grenet (Mama Ines). But Lecuona's 300-odd songs and piano pieces, to which Latin Americans have been listening for more than two decades, have become as indelible a part of their culture as the Spanish and Portuguese tongues. Several years ago, while Lecuona was safely on his plantation near Havana, a businessman named Ricardo Lecuona was killed in a plane crash in Colombia. While...
Already thousands of votes have been recorded-votes marked on handmade ballots yellowed with tropic humidity and desert grime: soldiers have been voting since nominations closed June 30. Out of Australia's 7,000,000 population, 820,000 men and 40,000 women are in the services...
...noon, and the tropic sun beat down on placid Macassar, in the Celebes, deep in the heart of The Netherlands Indies. Macassar had served the Jap well as an inner base through which to funnel supplies to forward areas. Last week there were six medium-sized cargo vessels in Macassar Harbor and a cruiser for protection. Suddenly the sky was darkened by a flock of fat-bellied Liberators, and a rain of explosives-incendiaries to one-ton bombs-fell on town and harbor. The Wilhelmina and Juliana docks burst into flame. A 2,000-pounder cracked the cruiser squarely...
...dubious quality. But since ballot-box stuffing was general for all contestants, the poll did represent a rude cross section of New York City's Latin American opinion. And that opinion (with some 200,000 Spanish-speaking inhabitants, New York is the biggest Latin city north of the Tropic of Cancer) is undoubtedly passionately informed...
...guide airmen stranded in tropic jungles, the Army last week brought out a new book, Jungle and Desert Emergencies, to go in their bail-out kits...