Word: gringo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gringo is a term used by some Latin Americans, often in a derogatory sense, for U.S. citizens. About 12,000 live in Cuba...
...Llada, who once hailed Pearson as an "ideal commentator," wrote in Diario National: "Our illustrious friend Drew Pearson has defrauded us." So fulsome was Pearson's praise for the Batista regime that even a Batista booster, Diario National's Luis Manuel Martinez, objected. He called Pearson a "gringo with a superiority complex, a frivolous tourist...
From a wealthy gringo named Everett Sholes. who owns one of Cuernavaca's most sumptuous homes, they took a deposition that told of his illegal detention by state police on charges never specified. He had been threatened with deportation, confiscation of his property, and a ruthless investigation of his closest friends. At that point two other local Yanquis turned up at police headquarters-by coincidence, they claimed-and offered to square things without unpleasant notoriety. They did. at a cost of $20,000. "I asked my family in the U.S. to send me the money." said Sholes...
...graceful carriage, gained by balancing burdens on their heads. They dress up in expensive, full-skirted costumes, often rich purple or Turkey red; at fiestas they wear necklaces made from old U.S. five-to 50-dollar gold pieces. Easy-laughing, they are honest, independent and, as the bulging-eyed gringo tourist who has seen the unabashed Tehuanas bathing in the river can testify, painstakingly clean. Inhibitions hardly exist, as even their superstitions show: if a man feels an overwhelming urge to smack a girl's bottom, Tehuanas think he'd better do it, rather than restrain himself...
...watch the university's football team from reasonably near the 50-yd. line. On the stadium's sloping outside walls, Diego Rivera is now executing a three-dimensional frieze of acid-painted stones. This "sculpture painting" depicts the history of Mexican sport from Mayan handball to gringo baseball...