Word: sombrero
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Other immigrants came prepared for such adversity. William Mills of Texas, who had heard Brazil was full of wild animals, brought his four hunting dogs on the boat to Rio. "Granddad was smart to do so," pipes up Rancher Sydney Mills, 70, wearing a straw sombrero, braided string tie and cowboy boots. "The dogs would often chase and tree pumas that raided the backyard chicken coop, and Granddad would down them with his shotgun. He killed over a dozen...
...presidency, which carries a six-year term. As the Minister of Budget and Planning since 1982, Salinas is both credited and cursed for President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado's austerity program. Salinas' task will be to guide Mexico's economy from the sleepy epoch of the sombrero into the dynamic age of the superconductor. At the same time, he faces mounting demands to loosen the P.R.I.'s grip on the country's political system...
...between boldness and indecipherability, making the work of minor French cubists like Gleizes or Metzinger seem wispy and ladylike by comparison. The extreme case was Zapatista Landscape--The Guerrilla, Rivera's masterpiece of 1915. It has everything in it from a rifle and pistol holster to a sarape, a sombrero and the snow-capped Mexican cordillera. Yet despite all the detail, the figure of % the Zapatista is hard to find; some analogy between cubist hide-and-seek and a real guerrilla's elusiveness got Rivera thinking about camouflage and disappearance...
...more than chalk, not even Vidmar seemed to mind. The U.S. exhibition baseball team was able to square accounts (2-1) with those Taiwanese Little Leaguers, all grown up, without excessive jingoism at Dodger Stadium. Swivel-hipped Mexican Walker Ernesto Canto pleased everyone in the Coliseum with his grand sombrero. Admittedly, that "U.S.A.!" chant can sound a little sour in a 40-point basketball blowout...
...wear a sombrero, silk neckerchief, fringed buckskin shirt, sealskin chaparajos or riding trowsers; alligator hide boots; and with my pearl-hilted revolver and beautifully finished Winchester rifle, I shall feel able to face anything...