Word: mabuhay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rice & Coke. With cries of Mabuhay (long live) in his ears, earnest, honest Magsaysay climbed back into his car and drove on. It was pitch dark. At several villages, the candidate and his bodyguards plodded with flashlights through inky darkness in the rain to shake hands with people. At Guagua, Magsaysay dined on chicken and rice, washed down by Coca-Cola, and told a crowd that "by coming like this among the humble people of the country, I am revolutionizing political campaigning in the Philippines . . . My policy can be summed up in one word, 'action...
...statesman, too? It is still too early to tell. But some of his countrymen are already calling him "the Eisenhower of the Pacific." When he showed up on Manila's docks last week to welcome home his election policemen, the crowd mobbed him and sent up a chant: "Mabuhay [long live] Magsaysay, our next President...