Word: panchos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...profits over the years, mainly in blooded Shorthorns and Herefords pastured in scores of thousands on the Sierra Madre's green slopes and herded finally to El Paso and the U.S. market. When revolution rolled across Mexico, Hearst's private armies of vaqueros fought bloody battles with Pancho Villa to save Babicora's herds and buildings. When President Cárdenas' land reforms later broke up other great U.S.-owned land holdings, Hearst's battalions of lawyers and editors staved off expropriation...
Sombrero (M-G-M), an excessively picturesque romantic drama with a Mexican setting, seems to have just about everything in it except Quetzalcoatl and Pancho Villa. Among its ingredients: three love stories involving three sets of dashing caballeros (Ricardo Montalban, Vittorio Gassman, Rick Jason) and beautiful señoritas (Pier Angeli, Yvonne de Carlo, Cyd Charisse), a bullfight, a cockfight, a feud between two villages, bastardy, incurable illness, a fiesta, a beauty contest, a contested will, gypsy witchcraft...
While in Juarez, Mexico in 1909, Marin met famed Rebel Leader Pancho Villa, who asked him to help run his revolution. Martin worked for Villa for seven years, taught the illiterate rebel how to write his name in the sand with a stick, and became so close to him that Villa called him "My Boy (one of the three English phrases he knew). In 1916, when Mexican government forces were closing in on their stronghold, Martin escaped, taking Villa's wife and children to New Orleans, thence to safety in Cuba...
...preliminary match, Sedgman's Aussic sidekick, Ken McGregor, steadied down his cantankerous backhand to edge Pancho Seguro, 4-6, 7-5, 8-6. The Down Under champ's win was but his sixth against 20 losses during the tour and came on the seventh service break of the final...
...Promoter Kramer's obvious relief. Sedgman was better the next day. Amid occasional catcalls from the crowd of 11,000 whenever Kramer muffed an easy point, Sedeman managed to edge the old pro, 6-4, 4-6, 6-3. But little Pancho Segura was still dubious about the Aussies' long-range chances: "These guys got a lot to learn about tennis-all they know is attack. No change of pace, can't lob." Then Pancho broke into a wide grin: "I beat these guys any day-next month even...