Word: puebla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousand dusty village squares and in the vast Zócalo before Mexico City's National Palace, crowds danced, skyrockets sizzled. In historic Puebla, where girls pelted his car with flowers as he passed, President Miguel Aleman laid a wreath at the foot of the statue of General Ignacio Zaragoza...
Mexicans, who have a high tolerance for red-hot foods, have eaten mole for over 200 years, ever since a nun in Puebla's Santa Monica Convent, surprised when the archbishop dropped in for lunch, threw together everything in the kitchen to make a sauce for leftover turkey...
...weeks Indians had been filling the markets of Mexico City with Christmas goods. Over the mountains from Toluca and Puebla they had come dogtrotting, their backs piled high with big clay pots (piñatas), their burros laden with little clay figurines of Joseph, Mary, the Christ Child, shepherds, lambs and the Three Kings...
Honey is a tiny village in the pine forests that cover the high sierra between Hidalgo and Puebla. Last spring there was peace in Honey. Visitors found none of the tight sullenness sometimes evident in villages around Mexico City. The people were relaxed, easygoing, contented...
Last week, early passers-by on the Puebla road came upon the bodies of the six committeemen. Like the other five, Mayor Rodríguez had been shot six times. It might have been better for him if he had carried...