Word: yanqui
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next Eddie Arcaro will probably speak Spanish better than English. His name will be something like Baeza or Ycaza or Valenzuela, and he will grimace when gringo railbirds make it "Bazza," or "Yacca Zacca," or "Vaylinzella." But that will not matter much, because his saddlebags will be stuffed with Yanqui dollars and back home in Panama or Mexico he will be as popular as the classiest matador de toros. The Presidente will invite him to parties, generals will shake his hand, and when he wins the Kentucky Derby, the biggest race of all, his countrymen will drape sweet-smelling flowers...
Just then the conversation was drowned out by a group of young Cubans, bound for school in Russia, who broke into a revolutionary song with a cha cha beat ending up ''Cuba, si! Yanqui, no!" Russian passengers joined in the chorus...
...makes it impossible for us to influence Cuba. We gain nothing by cutting her off from us. I do not think the Castro regime will fall because of our economic pressure. On the contrary. I rather think that our policy strengthens the Castro regime by giving it a powerful Yanqui enemy. I do not think that our policy in Cuba will deter revolutionaries elsewhere in Latin America by its threat of sanctions. On the contrary, I think our policy only confirms their expectations...
...Cuban revolution was quite obviously hurting for Yanqui dollars-though a mere $62 million will not go far to repair Cuba's economy. Speculating on very little evidence, some hopeful Washington Castrologists wondered if there might be another reason why Castro seemed eager to negotiate. Was Castro, feeling his control threatened by the Communists around him. shifting to a Khrushchev-style "coexistence" line with the U.S.? Whatever the explanation, the official U.S. reaction to the prisoner offer was no sale. "The U.S. cannot engage in a negotiation like that," said President Kennedy...
...same project without being aware of each other's existence. The company also suffered from memories of the freewheeling days when it was run by the late Sam ("The Banana Man") Zemurray and in the eyes of nationalistic Latin Americans was a symbol of everything they hated about "Yanqui imperialism...