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Word: gringo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Both the U.S. and the Soviet Union should pack their bags and get out of Cuba completely. It seems to be the fate of this country to fall under the prey of the gringo eagle or the Red bear. Will these two creatures ever understand that the Cuban people also have the human right of self-determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 29, 1979 | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...your story on Mexico's oil [Dec. 25], Mexicans are mystically attached to their resources, suspicious of their gringo neighbors. Yet, when you look into Mexico's past and see how the country's resources were exploited, mostly for the benefit of foreigners, you wonder if the xenophobia is not justified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 22, 1979 | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...theory, it is not a great leap from the North American chili-tortilla parlor to the true provincial cuisine of Mexico. In fact, it would take years for the most diligent gringo to understand or annotate this peasant-rooted cuisine of peppers and cornmeal, arroz, barbacoa and relleno. Diana Kennedy, English by birth and Mexicana by persuasion, invested a large part of her life tasting and testing south of the border to produce The Cuisines of Mexico in 1972. She spent five more years researching the 1978 followup, Recipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico (Harper & Row; 288 pages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: An International Bill of Fare | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

Liberation Theology. "The only ones who are really liberated by liberation theology are the oppressive Third World governments who are liberated from taking responsibility for their own political and economic problems, since the gringo devil makes such a marvelous scapegoat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Andy's Answers | 7/10/1978 | See Source »

...from the slick girlie mag, he thought it was funny and hung it up next to the eagle and laughed at it al the while never understanding the message. His roommates understood, even the sadistic chem major. They called Paco "Super-Mex" and offered to make him an honorary gringo, and they even bought him the black leather briefcase for his birthday...

Author: By Francis J. Connolly, | Title: 'Most determined case of suicide I've ever seen' | 5/27/1977 | See Source »

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