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Word: rebozo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miami area, Vice President Richard Nixon squeezed in a movie (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) and a song-filled lunch with local Kiwanians, unveiled a pair of trim if hairy limbs as he donned shorts for a round of golf with a friend, Miami Democrat C. G. ("Bebe") Rebozo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...somewhere south of the border, around 1866. Bullets squeal, gun butts crunch, death screams gurgle, bombs go bam! And when a man is all tuckered out, some señorita is like as not to come slinking up with a rose in her teeth and a pigsticker in her rebozo. Actor Lancaster (a co-producer of the movie) is the virtuoso in this symphony of slam. He slugs his women and plugs his men with a beatific smile. Actor Cooper, as usual, looks as if he hates to shoot anybody, but it's amazing how often...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 10, 1955 | 1/10/1955 | See Source »

...long last, the squat man was inside the elaborate baroque doors of the San Francisco church. Over the rebozo-covered heads of the women ahead of him, he could actually see the ten-foot cross with its glass box containing the holy splinter mounted at its center. His pulse beat faster. Finally, as he came abreast of the cross, his pocket knife flashed. Shrilly, the woman behind him screamed. "Virgen santisima! A sacrilege! This man has cut a piece of the Holy Cross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Souvenir | 1/23/1950 | See Source »

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