Word: mexicanitis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Henry ("Old Tippecanoe") Harrison's. Zachary Taylor was a professional soldier who had never voted. Franklin Pierce, who beat Winfield Scott, was a citizen-soldier like Harry Truman, but his war record was not nearly so good as Truman's. He enlisted as a private in the Mexican War, and President Polk, an old friend, promptly promoted him to brigadier-general. Pierce fell off his horse, sprained his knee and fainted at the battle of Contreras, fainted again the next day at the battle of Churubusco. No less a writer than Nathaniel Hawthorne (another old friend) said this...
This study was compiled for the Economic and Social Council of the U.N. by a board of five economists including Professor James W. Angell of Columbia University, two Britons, an Australian, and a Mexican...
Last week, as another strenuous holiday season closed, two customs seemed marked for uprooting. Roman Catholic priests and lay organizations denounced the Christmas tree and Santa Claus as "pagan and Anglo-Saxon." The crèche and the Three Kings, they suggested, are more truly Latin. By & large, Mexican fathers, cracking under the strain of two gift days, backed the drive to cast out U.S.-style celebrations. Said one: "I can't afford any more to be Santa and the Three Kings, so my wife and I decided in favor of the Three Kings." That settled, he went downtown...
...first half of "The Well," which showed a race riot being born; the scene in "A Streetcar Named Desire" where Marlon Brando shouts for his wife after he has beaten her; the ballet sequence that provided the finale for "An American in Paris"; Vincent Price and a boatful of Mexican police sinking into the bay with Price standing in the bow--cloak tossed over his shoulders--in "His Kind of Woman"; Alec Guinness descending the subway steps near the end of "The Lavender Hill Mob" to the music of a rhumba band, as the scene changes to South America climaxing...
Bones & Boasts. At the hospital, Lanza avoided run-of-the-ward tasks. He devoted his energies and talents to persuading his superiors that what Guatemala needed was a bone bank for surgical grafts. As a result, a delegation of Mexican officers and doctors journeyed to Guatemala last October to attend the inauguration of the country's first bone bank-six small glass jars of frozen bone fragments...