Word: chela
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...singer who falls for Ana Luisa (Emilia Gul?), a schoolteacher who's very proper, very blond, very snooty to those of darker hue. She's downright rude to José Carlos' closest comrades: his Afro-Cuban bandmate, Fernando (Chimi Monterrey), and the band's sexy, dusky lead dancer, Isabel (Chela Castro), who clearly has a crush on the oblivious José Carlos. "You lower yourself dancing with that mulatta," Ana Luisa sneers, to which her color-blind beau replies, "It was God's decision that she's of mixed race." Ana Luisa also thinks that his performing in blackface...
...Whitehall, in Mayfair and the City for wit and eloquence. In the '30s Bachelor Bracken strongly seconded Winston Churchill's criticism of the British government's Nazi-appeasing foreign policy under Prime Ministers Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. Baldwin scored Bracken as "Winston's faithful chela" (Hindu for disciple), lived to see him rise high in the wartime government and in Churchill's confidence...
...these things were duly uncovered, with the help of the kindly wisdom of the Lama and his marvelous chela* so that Ommony found himself at the end with a mission on his shoulders-a mission as strange and solemn as any that man has shouldered. Others of his fellow-adventurers on the secret Middle Way were Dawa Tserin, intricately-wedded hillsman with the mind of a child and the saw-edge knife; Diana, epitome of canine sagacity; Maitraya, bumptious actor...
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