Word: uruguayan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...high-ranking army officers), Cattáneo gave them the slip in the middle of a downtown Buenos Aires traffic jam. At week's end he, too, apparently was safe in Montevideo. The grapevine reported that he was keeping under cover there to avoid embarrassing the Uruguayan government...
...those who liked informality, there was Uruguay's cosmopolitan Punta del Este, where everybody wore slacks or bright bathing suits. Few Argentines could afford Uruguayan vacation rates any more (about $50 a day in inflated Argentine pesos), but Brazilians, who turned to Uruguay's casinos after their own were outlawed in 1946, partly made up for the absent visitors from the south...
Over & over, the Buenos Aires radio blared praise of Peron and La Senora. Scarcely half an hour went by without a newscaster using the phrase: "The wife of the President of the Republic, Dona Eva Maria Duarte de Peron." Argentines were inured to such laminated logrolling, but their Uruguayan neighbors across the River Plate had to hear it too, and they were not amused...
...Argentines, eight Peruvians, five Chileans, five Bolivians, two Venezuelans, one Uruguayan...
...example, when Argentina's President Juan Peron complained to Uruguayan Ambassador Roberto E. MacEachen last month that Montevideo radio stations were reporting the alleged plot against him in an unfriendly manner, MacEachen replied: "But in Uruguay we have a free radio...