Word: loco
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...special power sounded like the crotchety, irascible, impatient Velasco of old. In two earlier terms as President (1934-35, 1944-47), Velasco swung bewilderingly between left & right, flouted constitutions, railed unceasingly at "politicos with mouse minds" who "put banana peels in my way." He got the permanent nickname el loco (the loony), and finally made so many enemies that he was driven from office and packed into exile both times...
Secondly, the University's attitude towards the student is inconsistent. Harvard considers a man mature enough to run his academic career, and yet stands in loco parentis and rules his social life. The undergraduate should be as entitled to entertain women in his room as he is to pick his courses or study when he pleases. If Harvard wants to turn out the "whole man," its week-end paternalism is misplaced...
Second, that the University has discovered the secrets of an absolute moral code; and that, being in loco parentis, it is therefore obliged to impose the observance of this code upon its students...
...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...
...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...