Word: meester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Call Me Meester." From the moment Kennedy touched down at the mile-high capital, a city once occupied by U.S. troops in the war of 1846-48, Mexicans made it clear that their feelings were good neighborly. A solid ribbon of people lined every inch of the seven-mile ride into town, packing the curbside 20-deep, clinging to billboards, perched on rooftops, statues and lampposts. Mexico City's cops estimated the throng at 1,500,000. There had obviously been plenty of government organization to get out the crowds, but such enthusiasm could not be feigned, or done...
...festoon the dirty façades of grubby joints. In front of each stands a swarthy doorman, generally wearing baggy dark pants and a soiled red coat with heavily padded shoulders. To passing wolf packs of mufti-clad U.S. marines and sailors, he calls in an inviting voice: "Hey, Meester! Want to see nice French movies? Nice exhibition? You want nice girls?" "Take It off" The "good time" joints feature underlighted interiors, watered rum, tequila, gin and vodka of local manufacture, adulterated whisky, and tiny bottles of beer that cost 50? apiece...
...usually reserved for potentates from lands other than Hollywood, and he took it in his usual snide. The audience called on Actor Laughton to display his Southern drawl, newly acquired after a careful study of the delivery of Mississippi's real-life Senator John Stennis. Preminger vetoed it. "Meester Laughton," said he, "vill not do it because I vill not allow it." He also ignored the suggestion that the theme of Advise and Consent might evoke a questionable image of the U.S. abroad. He has prudently eliminated most of the book's high-level chicanery...