Word: bossa
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Nobody is sure just what it is, or even what its name implies: according to various experts, the Portuguese slang expression bossa nova can mean "the latest thing" or "the new beat" or "the new wrinkle." Bossa literally means a protuberance, but in the argot of Rio, it connotes a natural talent or knack, as in the line, "The Duke has a lot of bossa." The only points everybody is agreed on are that 1) bossa nova is a weird crossbreeding of cool jazz with chili-peppered Latin rhythms and 2) it is big, and getting even bigger...
Although it is generally too slow to dance to, bossa nova has been the rage of Brazilian café society for several years...
Minister of Internal Affairs. In Madison, Wis., Dr. Leonard W. Moss of Wayne University told the Anthropological Society that men in the Italian town of Bagnoli del Trigno, after listening to the adventures of countrymen returning from working in the U.S., now call their wives "La Bossa...
...enemy pockets" and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru calls "these foreign pimples." A Goan Congress Party was functioning underground since no political parties are allowed, civil liberties are nonexistent and even a wedding invitation must be censored. Mohandas K. Gandhi has advised Goa's Governor General Dr. José Ferreira Bossa that the Portuguese would be "wise to come to terms with the inhabitants of Goa." Cried Governor Bossa, servant of a European dictator: "Fascist." Cried the Congress organ, Amrita Bazar Patrika, accustomed to a more pachydermic opponent: "This puny Governor must be told that India is in no mood...