Word: puerto
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Puerto Rican...
...asked when I first felt a sense of racial identity, when I first understood that I belonged to a minority. In those early years, I had no such sense, because on Banana Kelly there was no majority. Everybody was either a Jew, an Italian, a Pole, a Greek, a Puerto Rican or, as we said in those days, a Negro. Racial epithets were hurled around and sometimes led to fistfights. But it was not "You're inferior--I'm better.'' The fighting was more like avenging an insult to your team. Among my boyhood friends were Victor Ramirez, Walter Schwartz...
...PUERTO RICO Its much feared encounter with Luis is averted when hurricane hangs a right...
Wielding 100-mph winds and whipping up 12-foot waves, the fourth hurricane in as many weeks landed in the U.S. Virgin Islands this evening. Puerto Rico, which may also be hit, closed its airport today at 3 p.m. Last week's hurricane, Luis, the most powerful this season, killed 12 people in the Caribbean islands...
Hurricane Luis, a 700-mile-wide tempest with winds as fast as 175 miles per hour, is expected to hit Puerto Rico late today or early Wednesday. For days, frightened residents and tourists have been crowding airports and air charter companies. "Everybody here is kind of frantic," reports TIME's Lorelei Albanese in San Juan. "Bottled water is almost completely sold out, and batteries and other supplies are being snapped up as soon as they are put on the shelves." Albanese says the ferocity of the storm has reminded many Puerto Ricans of Hurricane Hugo, which caused more than...