Word: colombianizing
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...artifact comes from the Cauca Valley, Colombia. The museum acquired the pendant in 1899. The pre-Colombian figure was made circa...
...nothing else, this year's squad is young. The roster lists only three seniors--captain Jimmy Langton, Hsiao and reserve forward Tony Ardilla... At one point in the Wesleyan game, five freshmen were in the lineup: fine wing Mauro Keller Sarmiento, back Robert Fritz, defender Peter Sergienko, Colombian forward Mike Mogollin and midfielder John Duggan...
...undetected flight into the U.S. of a plane carrying Colombian marijuana or cocaine is a dramatic but far from unusual event. "Several hundred come in every day," says Tom Stuckey, an FAA official in Louisiana. Most flights from Colombia are bound for Florida and Georgia; a DC-7 with twelve tons of marijuana was discovered at an airfield in Georgia last spring. Countless other "pot planes" take off from Mexico for the deserts of the Southwest, where the Drug Enforcement Administration has found more than 40 small aircraft abandoned this year. The trafficking is a high-profit operation: a single...
Sometimes the thefts are implicitly sanctioned. In Colombia, a group of guaqueros, as grave robbers are called there, has applied for and received official recognition as a labor union. Another veteran Colombian guaquero is so proud of his career that he has published his memoirs. His calling is not without risk. Earlier this year Arhuaco Indians hacked to death two robbers who had pillaged a temple site in Colombia's Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta...
There is a prince charming of sorts whose actions free the girl, but there is no conventional happy ending. Erendira and her supporting cast belong to the world of legend that Garcia Marquez Yoknapatawphaized out of the Colombian landscape in his lengthy masterpiece One Hundred Years of Solitude (1970). But the short story is not a form that can adequately contain his distinctive magic which requires proliferations of exotic plots, flowering images and familia' tangles...