Word: montezumae
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most of them in the tradition of Union soldiers, who dubbed it the Virginia or Tennessee quickstep, depending on where they were campaigning. Currently popular: turista in most of Latin America; "Aztec two-step" or "Montezuma's revenge" in Mexico; "Turkey trot" and "Gyppy tummy" in the Middle East; "Delhi belly" in India; and-universally-"the trots" and "the G.I.'s" referring not to government issue but to gastrointestinal symptoms...
...first, Conquistador Hernán Cortés, landed near Veracruz A.D. 1519 with horses and 600 men, defeated the Aztecs under Montezuma because the Indians believed the Spaniards to be brothers of a neglected god. Spain ruled for nearly 300 years before Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, a parish priest in the village of Dolores, led forth a ragged army of Indians under the banner of Mexico's own Virgin of Guadalupe, sparked an uprising that ended Spanish rule...
...amoebic dysentery, a severe, life-threatening disease. Last week, though Mexicans stoutly insist that their country is not so bad as others to the south, Mexico City's local government took a major step toward eliminating what is variously known as turista, the Aztec two-step, and Montezuma's revenge. In the capital's big, sparkling new Jamaica Market, and in a dozen smaller ones, watchful health inspectors installed a rigorous system of spraying fruits and vegetables with a chemical named Mobidin (containing colloidal silver and copper). The chemical, it is claimed, kills every germ in sight...
...AFUS! Pride and tradition are the services' lifeblood-and this would be the death blow to each. The same uniform-bah! The same promotion list-phooey! Would our intrepid young flyers ever consent to this? Would you demolish the Halls of Montezuma? Would you assassinate Benny Havens? Would you desecrate the Navy Blue and Gold? The effectiveness of any armed force lies chiefly in the morale and spirit of its components and not in a cold, efficient, economic steamroller...
Georgia is a nice state. It has mountains and plains and forests, and even a gold mine or two. It also has a lot of nice people. Some of them live in Macon County. That is a nice county. It has . . . a couple of towns called Montezuma and Oglethorpe, but it does not have Tuskegee Institute [April...