Word: loco
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...five months, military police and civilians had hunted in vain for un flaco con ojos de loco (a thin man with crazy eyes). Just before the murder of Liberal Leader Jorge Eliécer Gaitán (TIME, April 19), the thin man had been seen talking with assassin Juan Roa Sierra. If the thin man could be found (Assassin Roa was battered to death), it might be possible to discover who was behind Gaitán's killing...
...once in his voluble life, the ex-law professor, whom Ecuadorians - call "El Loco," said nothing. He resigned his powers to Colonel Mancheno and flew off in an army trimotored Junkers to Colombia and exile. It was a time for Velasco to say: "This is where I came in;" an army coup had chucked him out of the Ecuadorian presidency in 1935, a revolution had brought him back from Colombian exile nine years later to make him President again...
...Loco Knight. In 1587 Cervantes got a job as a government agent, collecting wheat and oil for the Invincible Armada. Collections were slow, and he was excommunicated for seizing wheat belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Seville Cathedral (the Church later took him back). His debtors failed him; his accounts were snarled; in 1592, 1597 and perhaps again in 1602, he was clapped in jail for indebtedness to the State. Later he applied for a job in the New World-possibly as paymaster of galleys in Cartagena, Colombia. He was turned down. Even after Don Quixote appeared (1605), Cervantes...
Lucius Beebe, U.S. journalism's most rococo columnist, went digging for facts in Colorado, after his fashion. To mine material for another nostalgic book about his hobby, railroads, locomotive-loco Lucius, assisted only by his Manhattan roommate, a photographer, and a small, hardy retinue, braved narrow-gauge trails in a private railroad car (b. circa 1870). Like the Englishman in the jungle, Prospector Beebe dutifully dressed for dinner every night. The grub: caviar, foie gras, pheasant, champagne...
...drawled that he was just a "monkey-tailed Baptist that had gone down for a little fellowship" with India's wily saint. To the political question, he answered Yes-he wanted some day to be chief of the Maryneal, Tex., fire department. British officialdom decided that he was loco but harmless...