Word: lengua
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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More important, he won the trust and loyalty of some 350 Lengua Indians. He fed, clothed and protected them, in return got their cheap and sometimes skillful labor. With some 40 Paraguayan Gauchos Lohman and the Indians wrangled horses, fenced the Chaco's deadly brackish swamps, found sweet water for the cattle, and did their best to keep rustlers away. By last year, Lohman was selling 20,000 steers a year at $15 a head...
...nationalists were unmoved. Said Dr. Alejandro Quijano, president of the Academia Mexicana de la Lengua: "My heart grieves at these dangers. New words, new ideas we welcome. But we want no bastard words from beyond our borders...
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