Word: atencio
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Long Jump--1. Carrie Arnold, Brown, 17-ft., 7-in.; 2. Leanne Atencio, Dartmouth, 17-ft., 6 1/4-in.; 3. Jennifer Dunne, Harvard...
Directly, Bennie Atencio, the tribal secretary and brother of Domingo Atencio, called on Albuquerque Attorney Scott Borg. The photographer had been identified as Michael Heller, who had published the photographs of the Santo Domingo in the New Mexican, a Santa Fe newspaper. Atencio told Borg that "they wanted to sue them and sue them to make them hurt...
...there a century ago by Army officers trying to please their wives) that indicate water, in this case the Rio Grande. And there, by a washed-out footbridge, a bandanna round his forehead and a bolo tie, secured by a silver-and-turquoise slide, round his neck, stands Domingo Atencio, the beginning of this tale...
...This bridge was only maybe five years old," Atencio was saying. "The young ones do not build them as good as the oldtimers." Below, the river ran shallow, clear and green. Beyond sprawled the lion-toned territory. Everywhere else was a deep-blue sky like an inverted bowl; everywhere, that is, but along the terribly littered bank. Atencio gave the trash a tearless but disgusted eye. Tourists had not been responsible for the beer cans, the dead radios, the broken whisky bottles and the rump-sprung chairs. The Indian knew that. Standing there by the mess, gray hair pulled back...
...down the corduroy road from the high ground and the village padded the stooped and broken father of a boy of this age. Atencio said the bandannaed figure, a former governor, had a wild son who had destroyed his father's truck in a stupid wreck. The son had since run away, taking with him some of his father's most prized possessions. "Look at him," Atencio said pityingly. "He has to walk...