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Latin and America
After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.
His metier was the American tropics, and he had lived all over Latin America and among the primitive tribes on the Amazon river.
This, in more diplomatic language, is what Adlai Stevenson told the newspaper men of Latin America yesterday on behalf of the United States Government.
Most immediately relevant to these episodes in Goa, Katanga and Ghana, as to the Suez-Hungary crisis before them, is the belief that the main theater of the world drama is the underdeveloped region of Asia, Africa and Latin America.
The first year's projects should also be spread through several countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
Political interference in Africa and Asia and even in Latin America ( though limited in Latin America by the special interest of the United States as expressed in the Monroe Doctrine, itself from the outset related to European politics and long dependent upon the `` balance of power '' system in Europe ) was necessary in order to preserve both common economic values and the European `` balance '' itself.
Latin America was once an area as `` safe '' for the West as Nebraska was for Nixon.
and concentrate its constructive efforts on eliminating in other parts of Latin America the social conditions on which totalitarian nationalism feeds ''.
They will be for teaching, agriculture and community development in Southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America.
Indonesia is one of the twenty under-developed countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America that are receiving Soviet aid.
The President and his advisers felt that the time might have come to warn Premier Khrushchev against a grave miscalculation in areas such as Berlin, Iran or Latin America from which there would be no turning back.
He thus kept his hands free for any action after Jan. 20, although reaction to the break was generally favorable in the U.S. and Latin America ( see the hemisphere ).
The word Gringo is widely used in parts of Latin America in reference to U. S. residents, often in a pejorative way but not necessarily.
Throughout Latin America the word Gringo is also used for any foreigner from the United States, Canada, or Europe, however the true sense of the word is any foreigner.
The meat of this mollusk is considered a delicacy in certain parts of Latin America ( especially Chile ), France, New Zealand, Southeast Asia, and East Asia ( especially in China, Japan, and Korea ).
It has dominated French social history and influenced historiography in Europe and Latin America.
In Mexico, exiled Republican intellectuals extended the Annales approach, particularly from the Center for Historical Studies of El Colegio de México, the leading graduate studies institution of Latin America.
* 1982 – Mexico announces it is unable to pay its enormous external debt, marking the beginning of a debt crisis that spreads to all of Latin America and the Third World.
Modern Latin America was not a British-style system of overseas colonies.
In European Spain, or just " the Peninsula " in the jargon of the Spains, after economic and human ravages of the Napoleonic Invasion ( 1808 ) and the War of Liberation ( 1808 – 1814 ) there ensued the aforementioned Latinamerican conflicts, in addition to the Carlist wars, the liberal-conservative wars, and the bleeding of people and resources into Latin America.
Colloquially referred to as the New World, this second super continent came to be termed " America ", probably deriving its name from the feminized Latin version of Vespucci's first name .< ref > Rival explanations have been proposed ( see Arciniegas, Germán.
In regions such as Latin America where these languages are spoken, negro ( pronounced slightly differently than Negro in English ), is a normal word used without disparaging intent in relation to black people.

Latin and leaves
The crossguard bears, above another pattern of vine leaves, an inscription in corrupted Hebrew in Latin script: Con citomon Eeve Sedalai Ebrebel (" Fervent faith incite the names of God: Sedalai and Ebrehel ").
The layering within metamorphic rocks is called foliation ( derived from the Latin word folia, meaning " leaves "), and it occurs when a rock is being shortened along one axis during recrystallization.
C. dentata can be best identified by the larger and more widely spaced saw-teeth on the edges of its leaves, as indicated by the scientific name dentata, Latin for " toothed ".
The species was initially described by Linnaeus in 1771, the specific epithet biloba derived from the Latin bis ' two ' and loba ' lobed ', referring to the shape of the leaves.
According to Pokorny, Latin limen, " threshold ", is related to limes, being the stone over which one enters or leaves the house, and some have gone so far as to view the frontier as a threshold.
The name bivalve is derived from the Latin bis, meaning " two ", and valvae, meaning " leaves of a door ".
The word " sermon " comes from a Middle English word which was derived from an Old French term, which in turn came from the Latin word sermō ; (" discourse "), although links have been made between the Latin word serere, which means ' to join together ', so this leaves the modern Latin definition open to interpretation.
* The Cambridge Songs ( Carmina Cantabrigiensia ), a collection of Goliardic medieval Latin poems, preserved on ten leaves of the " Codex Cantabrigiensis ".
Its genus name, " Curtisia ", is from the botanist William Curtis ( founder of The Botanical Magazine ) and " dentata " is simply the Latin for " toothed ", referring to the slightly serrated margins of its leaves.
Its leaves contain a Vitamin C-rich oil, a fact which, in the days of sailing ships, made it very attractive to British sailors suffering from scurvy, hence the species name, which means " against scurvy " in Latin.
However, not all variegated plants have this Latin tag, for instance many cultivars of Pelargonium have some zonal variegation in their leaves.
The crown of a King of Arms is silver-gilt and consists of sixteen acanthus leaves alternating in height, and inscribed with the words Miserere mei Deus secundum magnam misericordiam tuam ( Latin: " Have mercy on me O God according to Thy great mercy ", from Psalm 51 ).
As the Latin name glutinosa implies, the buds and young leaves are slightly sticky with a resinous gum.
Written one column per page, the codex contains 406 extant parchment leaves ( from perhaps an original 534 ) measuring 26 x 21. 5 cm, with the Greek text on the left face and the Latin text on the right.
Common plants with everyday usage include the smooth reddish purple leaves of the ti ( Dracaena terminalis ) plant used with coconut oil for traditional massage, fofo, and the dried root stems of Piper methysticum ( Piper Latin for " pepper ", methysticum Greek for " intoxicating ") are mixed with water for the important Ava Ceremony conducted during cultural events and gatherings.
The cancellation of the show leaves a large gap in Telemundo's schedule for exposure of Latin pop and rock music as well as interviews and previews of its upcoming novelas.
The tarock decks, popular in Germany and Switzerland, use either the Latin suits of cups, coins, batons and swords, or the German suits of hearts, bells, acorns and leaves ( in Switzerland, Roses and Shields are common substitutes for Hearts and Leaves ).
A deciduous tree that once commonly grew < 35 m tall, its Latin synonym carpinifolia alluding to the superficial similarity of the leaves to those of Hornbeam Carpinus sp., while the common names contrast the smooth upper surface and narrowness of the leaves with those of the Wych Elm, which are rough and broad.
The specific epithet tomentella, Latin for " beset with tomentum ( fuzz )", references the dense hairs found on the undersides of its leaves.
As both the common and scientific names suggest, the leaves bear some similarity to those of a peach or an almond ( Latin, amygdalus ).
This genus gets it name from Latin terminus, referring to the fact that the leaves appear at the very tips of the shoots.

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