Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Revolution cost early-day taxpayers $370 million; the War of 1812, $113 million; the Mexican War, $97 million; the Spanish-American, $444.5 million. Estimated U.S. expenditure for World War II: $350 billion...
...first notes of the bullfight music sounded, one of the fans hurled a stocking filled with flour toward the arena, hit a Mexican army lieutenant squarely in the face. A soldier who tried to arrest the culprit quickly became a target for a volley of empty bottles and oranges. "It's all in fun," screamed the charcoal makers, "don't arrest our brother." At the height of the uproar another soldier, who had just put down a marijuana cigarette, calmly unslung his Mauser, fired point-blank at the yelling fans. An aficionado dropped with a bullet behind...
...movie also spars with the hero's problem as a Mexican-American whose hypersensitivity as a member of a minority group warps all his personal dealings. But it falls into the bad Hollywood habit of glimpsing truth only long enough to falsify it. Montalban's anxieties are magically dispelled by a happy ending as familiar as Boxing Promoter Lionel Barrymore 's grumpiness. Though Right Cross's ring scenes are pretty well staged, it is a boxing picture with too much yatata and not enough sock...
...Crimson offense cross the enemy 20 yard line. This failure was not necessarily due to the lack of hard running, but rather to sloppy ball handling. Crimson backs were frequently trapped behind the line, and on other occasions when they did reach open ground, the ball looked like a Mexican jumping bean...
...everywhere except underfoot. It hung from trees and on bushes, on fences and around a swimming pool. Chartered buses covered the shows with a grueling ten-hour tour. Mexican dancers, Negro-spiritual singers, Hollywood starlets and a borrowed elephant livened the proceedings. The artists themselves hovered near at hand, ready with explanations and price lists. "It makes me feel good to be looked at," one of them informed a gaping bobbysoxer, "but I wish people would look at my pictures instead...