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Word: tezcatlipoca (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Usage:

...good day. Just as I finished a second cup of coffee, an editor called me, requesting some fixes on a story. As we discussed the changes, my mind began to transmogrify. His familiar visage took on the horrible features of Tezcatlipoca, Mexico's evil magician-god with blazing eyes and slobbering tongue. If one encounters this dreadful apparition, legend has it, one's only hope is to thrust a hand into the god's bloody chest cavity and seize its palpitating heart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Gods Are Crazy | 7/18/1988 | See Source »

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