Word: spanishness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find challenging and interesting." Last Friday, Hillary and her entourage hiked a slick, muddy trail outside the remote Panamanian village of Chica, where a dozen peasant women were waiting at their nursery of guavas, peppermint and poinsettias. On a dilapidated bamboo bench, Faustina Nunez told the First Lady in Spanish of the dream they had also harvested from the soil. "Our community could see we were a society of strong-willed women, and we were not going to step backward," Nunez said. For Hillary and her generation, that is a yearning that needs no translation...
...last week Miami's beloved daughter found herself under attack by many of the same people who once adored her. On Spanish-language radio, she was blasted as a pro-communist traitor. Fellow Cuban exiles threatened to burn her CDs in the streets of Calle Ocho, the main drag in Little Havana...
...French-, Spanish-, and German-speaking countries, Harvard requires that students have at least two years of university-level training or the equivalent in the language before departure and that all courses be taken in that language. For most other non-English-speaking countries, a year of language study is required prior to study abroad, even in countries where the language of instruction at educational institutions may be in English. There is no language requirement for English-speaking destinations...
...house, and this wide-open liberty is making you crazy. The Rockies spin out of the ground like the spurs of a boot, and a herd of antelope is grazing along a bend in the Missouri River. Willie Nelson and Ray Charles come on the radio to sing Seven Spanish Angels, and it seems prudent, if not reasonable, to nose up to 100, 105, 110. At 112, you can almost see the seven angels. It's 85 miles from Great Falls to Helena, with a lot of curves (it'd help if they had signs saying CURVE AHEAD, SLOW...
Also, they've been telling me, the euro would be unified only on paper. Spoken out loud, the euro is as many currencies as there are languages. The Spanish would presumably call it an ay-oo-roe. The French pronunciation is so odd that an English doctor I spoke to advised against attempting it on an empty stomach...