Word: mestizo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strange blend of Christian religion and primitive superstition Angel Sanchez had conceived a powerful devotion for the miracle-working Virgin of El Quinche. A dark, fanatical-looking mestizo, Sanchez even wore a medal of the Virgin pinned through the flesh of his breast. But last week he was locked up ia a Quito jail, charged with stealing the jewels from the highland village shrine where he had worshiped...
Until last week, Jilma Bejarano, an illiterate mestizo, servant girl in Caracas, had never seen as much as 100 bolivars ($30) at one time. Now she has 209,503 bolivars (more than $62,000), plans to buy three houses, bring her six illegitimate children from the country to the city. Jilma is a winner of the five-and-six, Caracas' long-shot version of the U.S. daily double...
...bewildered tribesmen like plate mail. With civilization had come the teaching missionary priest, the gold, pearl and hemp trade, running wars between the Dutch and Spanish, the British and Spanish, and the inexorable organization and pacification of the innocent bystanders. By 1892, when the brilliant and visionary mestizo, Dr. José Rizal, began his ideological revolt against the friars and tottering Spain, Spain had given his countrymen the homogeneity to make a common fight...
Head Start. Born in Luzon in 1878 to a Tagalog father and a mestizo, (mixed Spanish-Tagalog) mother, he had something of a head start-both his parents were schoolteachers. Their salary was ample: $6 a month each. Their home was a typical thatched nipa hut on stilts, with chickens scratching and hogs grunting in the mud beneath the ladder leading up to the door. Manila in those days was a full week's journey away, over what are still wild, jungle-covered mountains...
...Lamps of Peru. Churning up the Amazon from Iquitos in his double-decked river boat Lucrecia last week was Ganso Azul manager Edgar Clayton. As usual, he was looking for new business. He tied the Lucre da up to mudbanks by thatch-roofed Campa Indian villages, talked with mestizo river merchants about setting up new distribution centers...