Word: valos
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...what they'll do in a crucial series like this. They've never played in one before-never been important enough." The Yankees abruptly stopped their streak, 3-0. But next day, playing the Yanks again in a doubleheader, the A's bounced back. Outfielder Elmer Valo dived halfway into right-field stands like a circus acrobat to make a sensational catch. He did it again two innings later, robbing the Yankees of a sure home run-and lay unconscious for several minutes, with the ball locked in his glove, while the crowd cheered...
...recognition. He was not too worried about Figueres, whose new regime was already being challenged by Costa Rica's rightist landlords; but he didn't want Costa Rica to be a base of operations against him. Then he had to think about Guatemala's Arévalo, who hated him and who had just shown, by going to Figueres' rescue when it counted, that Guatemala would intervene on the side of Tacho's enemies...
...Guatemala City, President Juan José Arévalo watched with delight. Congress had been growing restive, and people had criticized his suspension of civil liberties. Now, as the result of British action, they backed him as never before...
...ringing tones, Arévalo reaffirmed Guatemala's century-old claim to British Honduras. Between notes to London, he composed a resolution to be submitted to the Bogota conference "calling for the disappearance of all colonies on American territory." Then, while his police watched to see that things did not go too far, 2,500 students paraded, ran up the Guatemalan flag on the British Legation flagstaff, plastered the building with stickers proclaiming "Pirates in Tuxedos!"-"Death to John Bull...
Last week, as Royal Marines from the Sheffield went ashore at Belize, Guatemalans called on their army for protection from "a British invasion." President Arévalo asked the U.S. to defend Latin American claims against Britain lest the inter-American system collapse. Citizens demanded 200% duties on all British goods. At week's end, there was loud talk of breaking diplomatic relations...