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Word: paco (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them was Francisco Fernandez, boss of the majority party in Congress, the Revolutionary Action Party (PAR), which elected President Jacobo Arbenz. PAR is moderately leftish, and "Paco" Fernandez is supposed to be no worse than a dilettantish fellow traveler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Penetration & Power | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...afternoon Paco rose in Congress and said a few kind words for some local Communists. As he warmed to his work, he exclaimed that the Communist Party is Guatemala's "most decent, most honest, most disciplined and most patriotic." Finally, carried away, Paco blurted out that his own party, PAR. is "only a party of transition . . . destined to disappear into the great world Communist Party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Penetration & Power | 10/19/1953 | See Source »

...name given her as a baby by her family's cook, who said: "Lawd, she's as purty as a little lady-bird." -The election produced a favorite political story in Texas which tells about a Mexican-American who found his friend Paco sitting on a curbstone, weeping: Friend: What troubles thee, Paco? Paco: My old father was here Saturday, and he did not come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The General Manager | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...Paco (sobbing bitterly): That is true, but he was here Saturday and he voted for Lyndon Johnson and did not come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The General Manager | 6/22/1953 | See Source »

...Senator. Among Hogan's influential friends was British-born Francis ("Paco") Gispert, secretary-manager of the Associated Steamship Lines, which has a membership of 46 shipping firms and four stevedoring companies. Gispert helped Hogan by putting up a pay office in the pier area to pay checkers, who, with stevedores and watchmen, are still controlled by the U.O.E.F. When the U.O.E.F. blacklisted the pay office, Gispert took the case to court, won it early last month. In the meantime he had been threatened, his home had been broken into, he had been beaten up, and his personal bodyguard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: When Good Men Are Timid | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

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