Word: throughly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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"There was a wave of liberalism through the hemisphere," he remembers. "News filtered in to us of the university reform in Argentina, the fight in Cuba against Dictator Gerardo Machado, Guerrilla Augusto César Sandino's battle against U.S. Marines in Nicaragua, the opposition to the tyrant Augusto...
Under Gallegos, the party maintained its headlong drive for reform. A.D. Congressmen railroaded measures through Congress. Whenever there was opposition, A.D. masses, usually led by left-wingers, would jam the Plaza El Silencio and scream hatred at their enemies. By the end of 1948, when rumors began circulating that A.D...
¶ New York's Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller, long interested and involved in Latin America (through family holdings in Venezuela's largest corporation, Creole Petroleum), urges the U.S. to take "steps to bring about the ultimate goal of Western Hemisphere economic union" to create "the greatest free-trading...
In the study of his home in Berkeley, Calif., snow-topped Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, soon to be 75, leafed through some historic papers dating from the days when he commanded the U.S. Pacific Fleet in World War II. But he made it clear that he was just browsing...
The big advantage of the moon-relay system is that it makes possible the use of microwaves in the ultra-high frequency, 400-megacycle band that are normally unaffected by magnetic storms. Such microwaves cannot be used in normal long-range radio transmissions, since they do not bend around the...