Word: teran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Evita News Vendors' Union of Buenos Aires hawked Peronista emblems, and buttonholed Chilean workers for enthusiastic "missionary" talks about the union swimming pools and apartment houses in the new Argentina. One of the sport stars in the delegation who attracted special attention was Socialite Tennist María Teran Weiss, attractive young widow of a Buenos Aires businessman. Reason: she is the latest of eight or ten Argentine beauties to be mentioned as a companion of the President, and likely prospect to succeed the late Evita Perón as First Lady of Argentina...
...Little One Ignacio V. (for nothing) Teran was undersized from the day he was born in 1933. As he grew up in the slums of Los Angeles, where his mother supported the family as a railroad car worker, he was always too little and too good-looking to get along with the rest of the boys. So he learned to fight...
...Keeny" (a corruption of the Spanish for "little one") Teran, was also and up & coming bantamweight (118 lbs.) boxer. As an amateur, he was beaten only once. As a professional, Keeny was hailed as a coming champion (16 wins, one draw) ; last year he won the boxing writers' "Fighter of the Year" award. Then, one night, his heroin-ravaged body failed to respond. Keeny took a savage beating from Hawaii's Tommy Umeda, a man he had beaten twice before...
...pawning his possessions to buy the stuff. Although he was devoted to his wife Sally and daughter Celia, Keeny could not quit the habit. He decided to commit suicide. Then Los Angeles Mirror Reporter Lou Larkin, tipped off to the story, caught up with 19-year-old Keeny Teran...