Word: grillo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rumba industry (TIME, Dec. 28, 1942) only eighth place among bandleaders. The winner (pulling more than twice as many votes as his nearest competitor) was a stocky Cuban named Machito ("The Kid"). One of the chief attractions at Manhattan's La Conga, kinky-haired Machito (real name Frank Grillo) has built his reputation among knowing Latins with a high-octane rumba style that would rattle the fenders off a jeep. Often he prances before his ten-piece band in a solo rumba routine known as the Golpe de Bibijajua (derived from the limping walk of one of North Africa...
This report was no fantasy from the mind of an idle reporter. In World War I Italy used the MAS (motor torpedo boat), the Grillo (a strange naval tank with spike-studded treads for climbing over harbor booms), and the piloted torpedo -prototype of last week's "secret" weapon...