Word: fiestas
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...room, cleared his throat and said: "Listen Seňor Franklino. If Plácido fails to show up another time, just let me know. I'll bring down my team of working mules from the farm. Please never do that again. It's bad for the fiesta." Franklin rose, bowed gravely and replied: "Thank you, senor. I'll do that. I'm sorry, but I could not accept a bullying from Plácido. Not even for the fiesta...
...first day, death had a fiesta. Soon after the roaring pack headed off over rolling junglelands from Tuxtla to Oaxaca (329.3 miles), disaster multiplied near Tehuantepec. A Ford overturned on a curve, and six spectators who had rushed to help its occupants were killed by a second Ford, which came whipping around the blind turn. A bit later, near by, an Italian co-driver died under his Ferrari after it blew a tire and overturned. The survivors tore onward, and at first lap's end a record average speed of 94.86 m.p.h. was set by one of Italy...
...Cortines, and with him dedicated the $50 million international Falcon Dam, a five-mile-long earth and rock-fill barrier, that will bring irrigation and flood control to both sides of the Rio Grande and electricity to light up the border towns. Before the dedication, both Presidents watched a fiesta in the dam-born village of Nuevo Guerrero, and toasted their good-neighboring countries at the Municipal Palace...
...fiesta marking its arrival began with an open-air Mass and a blessing of the machine. Then the Friends of Sanare feasted on rum and roast veal, and danced their traditional step, the tamunangue. Next day, in Sanare's old colonial plaza, they gathered and Mayor Rodriguez Diaz climbed upon the tractor...
...following day the tractor was put to work, and last week it completed its first task, scooping out a small reservoir. Then it turned to roadmaking. Plodding away from the fiesta, a Friend of Sanare had said, "Next year, when we celebrate the machine's birthday, possibly we shall not have to walk." An old woman added. "If God wills it, and the Virgin." And then someone struck a chord on a guitar, and they walked off singing...