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Word: crema (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Usage:

...about Pemex. Three days each week he visits oil regions in his DC-3, "El Petrolero"; the rest of the time he works hard in Pemex' pseudo-colonial, four-floor office building on Mexico City's Avenida Juárez. He often dashes over to the Casa Crema for a conference with President Aleman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: More Oil | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

...their own, they retaliated. For a whole morning, members of the aggressively leftist Club de Choferes Lázaro Cárdenas (1,200 drivers) invited everybody for free rides. That afternoon they drove en masse to Los Pinos to shout their grievances under the windows of the Casa Crema, Mexico's cream-colored White House, even though President Aleman was out of town. When police discovered that the drivers had no permit for any such demonstration, they arrested 111 drivers for disorderly conduct, brought up tow trucks to haul their cabs away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Free for All | 1/16/1950 | See Source »

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