Word: mala
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...income of their fathers, who work in mills and factories for wages as low as $1.50 a day. But they were fine ballplayers, especially Héctor Epitacio Torres, 12, the skinny (85 Ibs.) star pitcher. Nicknamed Malita (evil little woman) because, like his ex-pitcher father, called La Mala, Héctor's stuff is sneaky quick, Righthander Torres had kept Monterrey going most of the season with good control and a fine fast ball...
When Producer Darryl Zanuck mala-prophesied that the national institution of the '30s known as Shirley Temple "would be good every year of her life as long as she lived," few believed him. Hollywood realists knew that most peewee paragons grew up to be monsters or misfits, kept little of their young luster. But the opening chapter of NBC's Shirley Temple's Storybook last week sent viewers on a wildly nostalgic binge and helped make good the ancient Zanuck prophecy. Shirley Temple, now a full-bodiced 29, had bridged a whole generation without losing so much...
...exemplum maestissimum ver et Venus tibi protulit! Ubinam gentium sunt Nymphae Gratiaeque decentes? Cur nihil nisi membra disiecta? Nam hac in Senecae fabula Ration Stoica nihil potest, et ubique regnat Furor et Cupido ct Caedesl Phaedra enim cui voluptas effrenata maximum habet imperium, noverca nec innocens nec Fato percussa, mala ex libidine constituit suum privignum Hippolytum stuprare. Qui tamen, documentum nobis omnibus gravissimum, ex nimis pura castitate tantum silvas canesque amat, et feminas omnes--pro pudor--detestatur horret fugit execratur. Quid plura? Ne argumentum explicem, vos (et Phaedram Hippolytumque) manbet snaguis et cruor et exitium...
...major common variants used in different Latin American countries, often had to trace English and Spanish words back to their Latin origins to make sure they are exact equivalents. Instead of translating hierba merely as grass, he lists dozens of botanical variations as well as a few related colloquialisms. Mala hierba can mean weed or it can mean a wayward young man. Hierba amargosa means ragweed, hierba amarilla means an oxeye daisy, and so on down to hierba velluda meaning bulbous buttercup...
...myopic moneyed classes of Guate-j mala, whose skins and properties were saved by Carlos Castillo Armas' anti-Communist revolution last June, are the ones who gave the least money towards the revolution-and who have since refused to help with the revolution's debts. Last week, thoroughly exasperated. President Castillo Armas ruled that if gratitude were not motive enough to produce aid from the rich, the law would have to serve instead. He thereupon decreed a drastic capital levy...