Word: chica
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...barred colonial windows, and reams of brief, impassioned verses, inscribed on linen paper of powder blue and slipped under a door. ("Love! Bitter love! Pursue me no more!") But the chaperons, the sedate hot-chocolate parties and all the genteel elegance of yesteryear are being put to rout. "Ay, chica," cries 1955's blue-jeaned swain as Night and Day booms out of the record-player, "you're sweeter than an ice-cream cone and a blue sky!" The girl's fashionable ponytail bobs happily in acknowledgment...
Harry Truman was in a holiday mood from the moment he stepped out of the presidential DC-6 Independence at Boca Chica airport near Key West. He paused on the loading ramp, grinned and held his broad-brimmed tan hat high for the photographers. Then, coming down, he shook hands with white-uniformed Captain Cecil C. Adell, commander of the naval base to which he was bound, and demanded...
...Secretary, sweating in the Key West heat, alighted from a plane at Boca Chica airfield and went purposefully to lunch with the President. But lunch included an assortment of Florida politicos; obviously no state secrets were discussed...
...first day only one fighter was badly hurt, eight others injured. In four days' fighting last year, 144 ticos were hurt, including a woman named Chica Mena who could not resist the temptation to join in. This year's feature: night fighting, with black bulls...
Kitty Stertz's rooming house was a made-over mansion on the edge of Chica go's ritzy Gold Coast; from the sidewalk it had a deceptive air of faded elegance...