Word: uruguayan
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...news of the upset spread in Montevideo, a delirious mob, waving handkerchiefs and banners of white, the National Party's color, rallied round a ramshackle old mansion, pushed through moldering ground-floor rooms littered with photographs of Uruguayan heroes and of Mussolini, surrounded a brass bed where an emaciated old man lay, his revolver and Gaucho knife handy on the night table. "Patriarch," cried a leader, "we bring you victory!" Luis Alberto de Herrera, 85, the cantankerous spellbinder chief of the Nationals, bounced out of bed and spun about in a round of backslapping...
...cost: printing-press inflation to pay the bills, lower dollar income because of the unsold coffee. Brazil's sober O Estado de São Paulo mourned that "even a frost of catastrophic proportions would not solve Brazil's coffee problems." In the same gloomy key, a Uruguayan wool exporter said: "Only another Korean war could save...
...vital, minor changes in U.S. tariffs can affect it drastically. The worst-hurt nation currently is Uruguay. Since 1951 U.S. imports from Uruguay have fallen from $102 million a year to about $18 million, mostly because Western sheep raisers in the U.S. got a prohibitive tariff put on Uruguayan wool. Now the Russians, smoothly operating through Dutch importers, have begun buying Uruguay's wool; The Netherlands has become the country's best customer...
...Lampoon's own April Orlich, who plays a Uruguayan night club singer, is not on screen long enough to permit an assessment of her acting talents...
Through this damning factual indictment, Hungary's chief delegate, Peter Mod, sat impassively. Nor did he answer when the Uruguayan delegate asked him to explain his own "magic metamorphosis" from last October, when Mod himself led a Revolutionary Committee of the Hungarian Foreign Ministry that had demanded "liberation" and condemned Russia's "unwarranted interference...