Word: gringa
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...guise of hitchhiking. Grandfatherly "chicken hawks," men in their 50s and 60s, haggle with "chickens," teen-age boy hustlers, through the windows of Cadillacs. Blonde prostitutes boast of earning $600 a night from Mexicans who have illegally sneaked across the border and pay premium prices for a fair gringa. Brunettes and blacks can at best count on around $300 a night...
...oldest brother went to California as a wetback in 1966. Now he is married to a gringa, and he says they can't throw him back over the border, not now. He speaks English, he has a big house?well, bigger than anything in this village?and a car and a refrigerator, and his children go to a school where he doesn't have...
...surveillance. The policeman. a plump acne-blessed man, was convinced they were in his village for the purpose of scoring, since no other gringos had ever lingered more than an hour after visiting the ruins. Most of the villagers believed their officer had fallen in love with the bewildering gringa, because he followed her puff puff on a lady's bicycle whenever she appeared on the street...