Word: visaed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broad daylight, fabulously rich Mauricio Hochschild, most political of Bolivia's three great tin magnates, got into a car with Adolfo Blum, his general mani ager. They drove to the Chilean Embassy in a suburb of La Paz to get a visa so Hochschild could go to Chile. Then they vanished, leaving only an empty car and an echoing mystery...
...presence, Benitez denounced both Batista and Grau, kept calling each of them "cabrón" (Cuban for son-of-a-bitch). Then Batista struck. He fired Benitez from the Army, packed him off to Miami. For Señor (no longer General) Benitez, Ambassador Braden issued a rush-order visa...
...young refugee fled from Occupied France to Marseilles. No one there knew that Weidel was dead. At the Mexican Consulate they were wondering why the author had never turned up to claim the precious visa offered him by the Mexican Government. Gradually, the young refugee found himself stepping into the dead man's shoes. In Weidel's name he obtained the Mexican visa. Then he fell in love with a refugee woman, who was searching the Marseilles cafes for her husband. Her husband's name: Weidel...
...conscience-stricken refugee hinted that her husband might be dead. She replied that Mr. Weidel had recently asked for visas at various consulates. Then she went on searching. But in the end she lost faith, accepted the "protection" of a man with a visa, sailed for the U.S.-on a ship that was torpedoed. The young refugee decided to wait in hiding for Europe's liberation...
...able to "dissipate the doubts" of the Board of Immigration Appeals as to her testimony that she was not a Communist. This dissipation is at best a six-month reprieve. To avoid deportation as an undesirable alien, she must now go to Canada or Mexico, wangle an immigration visa from a U.S. consul. If the consul says Yes, she is a suitable prospective citizen with no further doubts to dissipate...