Word: chicha
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...Inca, Christian and national calendars. Bolivia's independence day, last Sunday, which coincides with the fiesta of the Indians' well-beloved Virgin of Copacabana, set off a Class One or seven-day bender. But even on less special occasions, the Indians' consumption of crude corn chicha reaches fabulous proportions...
...Puno, on the Peruvian side of the lake, 2,000 garishly dressed Indians, many of them barefoot, were drinking and dancing in the biting cold. All around the town plaza shops did a roaring business selling chicha, cane alcohol or beer...
...engineer who designed the water system, not dreaming that the city would grow from 332,000 to half a million in seven years. But Bogota boosters were not in a mood to boast. Only the local temperance leaguers felt like rejoicing: the flow of workingmen's chicha (corn beer) was also drying...
...Coclé shifted its course, cut through an ancient Coclé burial ground. Five years ago some natives, poling up the river when the water was unusually low, spied something shining on the bank. They went ashore, scooped up enough shining things to buy many jars of heady chicha. Soon Harvard's Peabody Museum heard of the curiously wrought gold ornaments on sale in a Panama City antique shop. The result was the Lothrop expedition. In one grave alone, containing a score of skeletons laid out on stone slabs, the Harvard diggers found more than 2,000 objects...