Word: peruvian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human race." To cope with the low oxygen supply in the air he breathes, the typical inhabitant of the high Central Andes (including parts of Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador) has developed a barrel chest with extra lung capacity. He carries about two quarts more blood than the coastal Peruvian, about half again as much hemoglobin (the blood's oxygen-carrying component). His heart rate is slow and steady. "An ideal heart for an athlete," says Monge. The Andean practically never suffers from high blood pressure...
...Britain had met in solemn conclave. Before the dark backdrop of the tiny Association of Amateur Artists theater, dapper, grey-haired Brazilian Ambassador Luis Pereira Ferreira de Faro announced to a hushed audience the result of their deliberations. The diplomats, aided by local intellectuals and journalists, had selected luscious Peruvian Ana Maria Alvarez Calderon as Beauty Queen of All the Americas...
Bright Turban. Dr. Rebeca Carrion Cachot of the Peruvian National Museum of Archeology and Anthropology and Junius Bird of the American Museum loosened the ropes that tied the top of the bundle. The outer cloths, nearly as strong as new, peeled away easily. Inside were finer cloths, and perched on the top was a turban of red embroidery...
...bottom of the bundle, crushed under the burden of his gorgeous vestments, was the dry skeleton of what had once been a middle-aged Peruvian with greying hair. Amid all those glowing colors, he looked small and inconsequential. The diggers, fascinated by the era in which he lived, were not much interested in the man himself. Only one thing about him was worth noting: his legs were tightly folded under his chin because the ancient Peruvians believed that a man should lie m his grave in the position in which he lay in his mother's womb...
...port after which the famous Peruvian brandy was named...