Word: mexicanitis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...chamber was quiet: 243 members had just answered a quorum call, and Speaker Joe Martin was counting the ayes on a standing vote on a rule to provide two hours of debate on a bill regarding Mexican immigrants. In the gallery, the woman and her companions took back-row seats, observed the proceedings for a minute or two. Then all three whipped out German automatic pistols. The woman opened fire first, walking down the aisle to the front of the gallery, holding her pistol with both hands. "Puerto Rico is not free!" she screamed. The men opened fire a moment...
Coconut Planter Rufino Flores Velez was riding along a Mexican trail near the isolated village of Rio Grande in the southwest corner of Oaxaca state. When his horse kicked the corner of a stone sticking out of the dust, he hopped off, investigated, and gathered a gang of peasants to dig up the stone. It weighed about three tons, but at last the peasants managed to turn it over. The underside was covered with elaborate carvings that looked to non-archeological eyes like a man and woman embracing...
Smoky Dizziness. Tamayo confesses that Heated Discussion has personal roots. It reminds him of his arguments with David Siqueiros, who opposes Tamayo's work because it does not reflect the Marxist ideology which Communist Siqueiros insists is part of the Mexican heritage. Tamayo has also put some personal feeling−and a touch of his new humor−into Inexpert Smoker, which portrays a head gripping a pipe and surrounded with smoke, ashes and dizziness. Several years ago, Tamayo's wife bought him a pipe in London; he likes the feel of a pipe, but much smoking makes...
Born on the border at Brownsville, Holland learned Spanish as a boy from Mexican-American playmates, took his law degree from the University of Texas and practiced in San Antonio until 1942. Then he joined the Foreign Service Auxiliary in the Mexico City embassy, serving as a special assistant to Ambassador George Messersmith. Among his tasks: blacklisting firms dealing with Axis countries. In 1945 he joined B.B.A. & S. in Houston and established the firm's Mexican affiliate, which now employs 16 bilingual lawyers mainly concerned with setting up and financing mining, farming, insurance, import-export, banking and oil companies...
...same time, the scientists also said that corn is not a descendant of a Mexican grass called teosinte. This grain, however, has had an important place in the development of modern corn through natural hybridization processes, the botanists added...