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Word: copacabana (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cola de mono (monkey's tail-milk, cinnamon, and coffee laced with aguardiente), fanned themselves as the thermometer climbed to 93°. At Viña del Mar and Uruguay's Punta del Este, beaches were jammed. So was the graceful white curve of Rio's Copacabana, where young cariocas, lampooning a recently revived city ordinance against walking to the beach in bathing suits, donned dinner coats or silver-fox jackets over their beachwear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Christmas in July | 1/2/1950 | See Source »

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