Word: mucho
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Princeton boasts a veteran coach (Bill Farley), mucho lettermen, and a bushel of past clutch victories. On ice it may be different, but in chlorinated water Princeton has ruled the Ivies for half a decade. They know when the big meets are, they're always in them...
Wicks walked in Bing's steady footsteps with yet another in his recent rash of invigorating efforts. Wicks, who saw mucho minutes due to the absence of injured Curtis Rowe and Tom Boswell's fouling out, poured in 16 points and added a decisive three-point play half-way through the O.T. to put the Celtics ahead to stay...
Morale is sometimes high in Panama, Greene concludes--at least when the jungle inhabitants sing of driving the Zonians into the Atlantic, "Where the sharks can eat mucho Yanqui, much Yanqui." Yet underneath Greene touches a nausea, a festering need to strike out--if nothing more, just to keep alive a glimmer of Latin pride...
...sketching in a layer of flour beside her, looked up from her knitting and, as I passed, called out in the guttural Spanish that many of the assimilated Aymara speak, "Harina barata, muy barata"--Flour, very cheap. I looked at her and smiled. Sensing a potential customer with mucho dinero, she put down her knitting and tried to entrap me: "Solamente tres pesos por kilo. No puede encontrar mejor"--Only three pesos, you can't find better. I mumbled in my broken Spanish that I was only looking, and turned away before I would see her disappointed look...