Word: pocho
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Poor Little Mexican. Gonzalez, a suave stumper who likes to drop tidbits from classical literature into his speeches, bore down heavily on his pocho (Mexican born in the U.S.) background, tried hard to represent himself as an underdog. It was a difficult ploy-especially in a district that has a large Mexican-American population and that hasn't sent a Republican to Congress since 1920-until Dwight Eisenhower arrived to stump for Goode. Then Gonzalez opened the tear ducts: "They brought down their big 50-megaton bomb to drop on this poor little Mexican...
...Buenos Aires, Nelly Rivas, 19, onetime teen-age mistress of Argentina's ex-Dictator Juan ("Just call me Pocho") Perón, announced that she and husband Carlos Ramil, an accountant at the U.S. embassy, expect a baby in April...
...Girl." Perón knew teenage girls by the thousands; in the hope of building political support, he had created a Union of High School Students (U.E.S.) and turned over to its girls' division the 124-acre presidential estate at Olivos, a Buenos Aires suburb. "Just call me Pocho," Perón told the girls, and he came often to watch the basketball, skating and sailboat racing, or to award wallets containing 500-peso notes to graduates of the classes in dancing, gymnastics and drama. On one such occasion, he met green-eyed Nelly, a janitor's daughter...
...trousers which narrow at the ankles. He is forever fondling and fussing over his mike, always starts off by jabbering such gibberish as Viriviriviri-virividee, V por Victori. At intervals he tosses in his own crazy versions of mariachi tunes, Russian melodies, Italian arias; but mostly he just spouts pocho like so much fast doubletalk. His only complete gag is feeble: Roosevelt and Churchill in mud up to the waist and the neck, with Hitler in mud only to the ankles-because, comes the tag line, he is standing on Göring's shoulders. But spiked with pocho...
...Mexican for zoot-suiter. † Watermelon, doughnuts, shampoo (in Spanish, sandla, rosquitas, lavar la cabeza) become guaramelon, donas, champu, in pocho. Outside the Folies Bergbre hawkers sell a pocho glossary...