Word: margorito
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...corn fields with their mules and wooden plows, and the older men and older boys, picks and shovels slung over their shoulders, setting out to work on the road. The boys or girls guide their sheep out to pasture, or bring in the hay for the animals, and Don Margorito or his neighbor moves from one maguey plant to the next, extracting the sweet agua miel that soon ferments into pulche, an alcoholic drink. Or, later, you pass the very small children, laden with Pepsi bottles and tortillas for their fathers' early lunch, scampering through the dust...
...Near Henderson, Colo., a truck driver named Margorito Gomez ran into a pole that carried a 13,000-volt power line. Within seconds, five nearby farm houses caught fire, the local telephone exchange was knocked out, a bull was electrocuted, and all the electric water pumps in the area stopped pumping. At home, Gomez explained: "I'm subject to fainting spells...
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