Word: burro
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...people who buy and sell in this new Mexico bear about as much resemblance to the old-fashioned U.S. caricature of a barefoot peon on burro-back as Ruiz Cortines does to Pancho Villa. They are a people who have moved out of the adobe huts into the main stream of urban life. They include professional men trained in modern universities. They eat bread instead of tortillas (thereby creating a brand-new demand for wheat that threatens to shake the country's immemorial corn monoculture). They give their children a good education; they live in houses with hot water...
...Democratic burro was hungry for party funds, and some of the men who carried the party load of getting out the vote were hungry for personal rewards. In expanded federal agencies there were green pastures for both. The friendship boys from city hall, who made up the Democratic burrocracy, thrived on the new bureaucracy...
...first twenty-four hours the poet was seen to rescue several toads from wells into which they had stumbled; to feed from a bottle the runt pig of a large litter; to rub noses with a calf in a field; to whisper something into the wagging ear of a burro from Texas-imported for his express companionship; to feed countless chickens and ducks; and to ignore only men . . ." Summing up his American experience, Stephens said: "If anyone gets fresh with you in America, particularly taxi drivers, you must say-holding up two fingers-'On your way, horseface...
Wild Welcome. Three years ago wiry I.P.S. man Francisco Mereiles narrowly missed the same fate on a peacemaking expedition near the Chavantes' Serra do Roncador (Snoring Mountain). Ambushed, he whipped his gift-laden burro off into the jungle and escaped while the Indians chased and killed the burro. Manfully turning the other deep-tanned cheek, Mereiles kept right on wooing the Chavantes with gifts of cloth and aluminum pots dropped strategically along their forest trails. Eventually, tribesmen began slipping across to the white man's side of the River of Deaths, asking for gifts and gulping down...
...time, word of her phenomenal "voice of the birds and of the earthquake" reached Lima. After traveling 16 days by boat, train and burro to reach her village, a party from Lima heard her, persuaded her parents to let her go to the capital to study...