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Word: enchiladas (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though his country is the smallest in the Western Hemisphere, El Salvador's President, Lieutenant Colonel Jose Maria Lemus, 47, will get what Latin American diplomats call the "full enchilada" when he arrives in Washington next week on a twelve-day state visit to the U.S. Ingredients : an airport greeting from President Dwight Eisenhower,*quarters at Blair House, a White House dinner party, an address to a joint session of Congress, a white tie dinner at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, and a Broadway ticker-tape parade, a visit to Monticello and to the New Salem, Ill. log cabin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: The Full Enchilada | 3/9/1959 | See Source »

...changed to "in homemade masks," but Actor Rod Steiger slipped up and said "in hoods" anyway. After all possible aspects of the script that might offend religious or regional groups were hashed over, the laundering was applied to whatever might cause Mexicans to take umbrage (deleted: "Mex," "enchilada-eater," "bean-eaters," "greasy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Tale of a Script | 6/30/1958 | See Source »

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