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Word: ventosa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...tripped prettily off Viasa Flight 737 with her fiancé, and was walking toward immigration at the Caracas terminal when sharp-eyed Venezuelan plainclothesmen decided she was too round to be real. When they searched Josefa Ventosa Jiménez, 22, they found that the fetching passenger from Rome was wearing a specially made girdle stuffed with 1,200 crisp $100 bills. Her companion, Alessandro Beltramini, 53, a Milan physician and longtime Communist, was also well padded: his vest yielded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communists: The New Strategy | 4/23/1965 | See Source »

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