Word: underlying
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Under the benign auspices of Theodore Roosevelt and his Secretary of State John Hay, Panama proclaimed a republican constitution in 1904. Last Oct. 1, a determined young man named Arnulfo Arias swore an oath as President of Panama faithfully to observe that constitution. Seventeen days later he presented Panama'...
Onetime Bolivian Foreign Minister Eduardo Diez de Medina squirmed uncomfortably on his bench in the La Paz Chamber of Deputies one day last week. From the packed galleries above him angry Bolivian spectators hissed & booed, kept up a steady chant of "Down with the Jews! Death to the Jews!" Jingoistic...
Bardia lies in a deep, winding wadi (river gorge) whose walls are honeycombed with stone caves. But for those caves, many more of the 20,000-30,000 Italian soldiers trapped there last week would have died. Enough died as it was under a ceaseless inferno of bombs from the...
To Canterbury's 25th birthday dinner in Manhattan last week went rich and famous men: retired Steelman James A. Farrell and Railroader Henry Havemeyer, trustees of the school; 100-odd old boys, among them Philip Burnham, editor of the Catholic weekly Commonweal. Too busy to attend was old Canterburian...
"You'd better close that slow leak under your nose before I vulcanize it."