Word: yanqui
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...believe that he has led his people through the same kind of revolution as Mexico's, Guatemala became the hemisphere's most left-wing country. In their zeal to proclaim their independence of the U.S., Arévalo's followers fell under the influence of anti-yanqui propaganda put out by local Communists, and accepted Red leadership in their trade unions. Arévalo gave all moral and material aid he could to the Caribbean Legion's attempts to overthrow rightist dictatorships in Nicaragua, Honduras and the Dominican Republic...
Cape & Hamburg. Up to that point, even Puerto Rican police had no real conception of the Nationalists' full, fanatic plans. They had begun to look on sickly, yanqui-hating Pedro Albizu Campos as no more than a noisy reminder of the days when "independence" was the rallying cry of all diehard Caribbean extremists. The son of a wealthy Spanish sugar merchant and his father's Negro mistress, he had gone to Harvard ('16), returned to Puerto Rico embittered by a World War I hitch in a Puerto Rican Negro regiment...
Cereijo assured U.S. businessmen that Argentina would welcome private U.S. capital and would treat it fairly. To demonstrate its change of heart from the old yanqui-baiting days, his government had already taken steps...
...Long, Fellows. Some comfort-loving miners built shacks, and a rickety boom town began to rise beside the river. Buyers flocked in laden with cash, arriving by plane in a grassy field near by. They also flew in food and yanqui beer at $1.50 a can. Eggs cost $1.20 apiece...
...visiting newsmen. His stateside trips grew longer until they lasted as long as half a year. Politicos, whose mouths had watered for years at the thought of the $5,000,000 annual customs traffic, growled that it was time for a reckoning with the deplorably high-minded, highhanded yanqui...