Word: toluca
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...weeks Indians had been filling the markets of Mexico City with Christmas goods. Over the mountains from Toluca and Puebla they had come dogtrotting, their backs piled high with big clay pots (piñatas), their burros laden with little clay figurines of Joseph, Mary, the Christ Child, shepherds, lambs and the Three Kings...
Except for two periods in the U.S. as a bracero, Canuto has spent his life near Toluca, 41 miles west of Mexico City. There, on 2½ acres of land inherited from his father, some 30 minutes' walk from the casita he has built with his U.S. earnings, Canuto grows the maize that helps keep his family alive. But there is not maize enough; to keep all the Linerios in tortillas the year through, Canuto must work part time as a bricklayer...
Early one morning last week Canute Linerio, a Solemn Indian of 46, set out again for Mexico City to look for work. Leaving his wife Margarita and two children, José, 10, and Consuelo, 13, in their tiny casita on the outskirts of Toluca, Canute boarded the Red Arrow bus, paid 31? fare to ride in to the capital. There, as he had done before, he read the "advices of opportunity" in the newspapers, spelling each word out slowly to himself...
...Toluca, Mexico May 20, 1848 "Dear Cousin...
...face through a doorway in I'm No Angel and let Mae West squirt water into it. Her performance in 'Murder at the Vanities was so nastily expert that Paramount decided she was ripe for better parts. She lives with her mother in a house at Toluca Lake in Los Angeles, works too hard to go out much, saves her money, regarded driving an automobile as fun until she was hurt in an accident in Phoenix, Ariz. Since the water-squirting episode, she has been one of Mae West's best friends...