Word: mescal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place at Sahagun, a desert town 70 miles north of Mexico City. Only two years ago Sahagun was a textbook example of Mexican poverty, peopled by sleepy peons who made a living tapping "honey water" from the heart of the maguey cactus to ferment into pulque or distill into mescal. Then the Mexican government, relying mainly on generous concessions to private enterprise, set about overhauling the town...
...third is a $4,000,000 made-in-Japan factory that last week started producing the first made-in-Mexico textile manufacturing machinery. Financed mostly by Tokyo's Toyoda Mills, it is run by Japanese engineers, employs 800 Mexicans whose highest skill until lately was making mescal...
...customary in the reading period, CRIMSON editors are taking their weekends with pulque, mescal, tequila, and books on sunny little ledges north of Acapulco. There will be no Saturday Crimes...
...Doctors have recently discovered that babies with blood disorders caused by Rh-factor differences in their parents have a greater chance of being born alive if their mothers during pregnancy are treated with: 1. Mescal beans. 4. Sulfa drugs...
...Spanish fandango. Because the song is now the town's own anthem, the occasion was marked with fitting energy. Through the first night the townspeople, bearing pinewood torches, paraded, fired Roman candles and danced. Next morning, with hardly more than a pause for some fiery 120-proof mescal (drunk with powdered cactus-worm salt for additional flavor), a new parade started...