Word: senors
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...worn leather jacket watched anxiously. Two of his daughters had died in his home's collapse. A rescuer , waved his hand for quiet: a dog was barking in the rubble. One of the workers reached into the debris and pulled out a white pup, trembling and whining. "Senor," said the worker, handing the animal to the grieving man. It was his dog. He cuddled it, trying to ease his own sorrow in comforting...
...Guillermo, 41, a furniture repairman, asked that his family name not be revealed because he is in the U.S. illegally. He entered in 1975 from a village in Michoacan, Mexico, and drifted north to Seattle, hoping to earn enough to start his own business back home ("upholstery or construction, senor, it would not matter"). But by 1979 ! his wife Guadelupe advised him that prospects for founding a business or even earning a living wage in Michoacan were nil, so Guillermo brought Guadelupe and their four children to join him in Seattle. Today he earns $400 a month from a boss...
...that sixth vote is Vellucci. If, that is, the liberals include a large number of houses. "They [the liberals] thought they had Al Vellucci in the bag, but now they see that they don't, and Senor David Sullivan will have to bargain with me," Vellucci says...
Some especially noxious examples: Tennessee Republican Robin Beard ran a TV commercial in which a Fidel Castro look-alike delightedly lit a cigar with a $100 bill and intoned: "Muchissimas gracias, Senor Sasser." The false implication was that Beard's opponent, Democratic Senator Jim Sasser, had voted for foreign aid appropriations that had somehow benefited Communist Cuba. In California, Republican Peter Cost, a candidate for the state assembly, showed a TV spot in which three actors dressed up to look like especially vicious convicts sat around in a jail cell and praised Cost's opponent, Democrat Sam Farr...
...mouse called "Flippin Jimmy" designed to highlight the Senator's alleged woffling on the issues, raised doubts as to Beard's seriousness and drew threats of a lawsuit from Sasser. A subsequent advertisement featured an actor portraying Fidel Castro lighting a cigar with a $100 bill and saying. "Thanks, Senor Sasser," referring to the Democrat's vote for a bill to extend U.S. aid to international development banks. Later to draw attention to Sasser's vote against a Constitutional amendment banning abortion, the Beard campaign financed a tour of the state by a fundamentalist religious leader who called the Senator...