Word: camino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...school in a Rome tenement, gave the kids freedom, to learn by themselves. There were knots to untie, stoppers to put into bottles. Soon the pupils were beginning to copy letters cut out of cardboard. One day a four-year-old boy, seeing the fireplace in the room, wrote "camino." In a few days, the other four-year-olds were learning to write...
Filipinos love such political jugglery. Though the election was a foregone conclusion, several minority candidates campaigned just for the fun of it. The best show was put on by gaudy, athletic Hilario Camino Moncado. Colorful Candidate Moncado, Philippine equivalent of Texas' Pappy O'Daniel, is married to pretty Diana Toy, onetime Hollywood bit player who is now Manila's favorite radio singer. He took his wife with him to rallies, looked on with a smile as she led his fervent followers in The Moncado March...
Crosses mark the 120-mile desert trail from Sonoyta, Mexico, to San Luis, Ariz. Under the crosses are the corpses of wanderers who have died along its arid and terrible wastes. In Mexico it is called "El Camino del Diablo." Last week seven new crosses were put up on the Devil's Highway...
Because I was the first white woman to have crossed this trail, the [Panama-Colombia] Boundary Commission was going to name the trail from Paya to Arquia in my honor by calling it El Camino de Alicia...
...parroquia, particularly interesting among Mexico's colonial churches because it was completed by the men who began it. Borda, a heavy speculator, went broke several times before he went broke for good. But when he was in his prime Taxco was an important trading town on the transcontinental camino real, along which the trade of Spain and the Orient was transshipped. The gold leaf of the parroquia came from the Philippines...