Word: chihuahua
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicano: Mexican American. A shortened, corrupted form of Mexicano, with the first syllable dropped and the "x" pronounced like ch in cheese, in the fashion of Mexico's Chihuahua Indians...
Moreover, the laboratory animal and the wild animal now bear little resemblance to each other. They are both rodents, but that is about all. Confined in thousands of laboratories, the white rat represents hundreds of different varieties, each as different from its common ancestor as the Chihuahua is from the wolf. Some cornered Norway rats will fight to the death rather than allow themselves to be captured by a man; a cornered laboratory rat will simply back away. Wild Norways ruthlessly kill intruder rats; their amiable laboratory cousins merely sniff at strangers. Wild rats survive by their wits; captive rats...
...least three of them want to get in right away, and the others are giving serious thought to joining. Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie flew into Kampala with his pet Chihuahua Lulu to put in his country's bid for membership. President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia said that his country wants in because it believes that such cooperation is "a matter of life or death." With a hostile white regime in Rhodesia as a neighbor, Zambia sees its economic future in East Africa. Even Somalia's President Abdinashid AH Shermarke, whose country has recently encouraged rebellious tribes...
Modest as it was, his life was probably beyond dreams he might have entertained as a boy in his native Chihuahua, where his parents and their ten children earned a bare subsistence with a vegetable and fruit stand in the market. As any good script would have it, Primitivo, 23, along with his younger brother Alfredo, began a naturalization course at night at Kansas City's Westport High School, the first step to ward his cherished goal of becoming a U.S. citizen. If Primitivo Garcia had been like the U.S. citizens who were around Westport one cold night last...
Late in November of 1913, Ambrose Bierce, 71, afflicted with asthma and rue, crossed the border into Mexico. He had declared a journalist's interest in the Mexican revolution and planned to seek out Pancho Villa. Around Christmas Day that year, he sent a letter home from Chihuahua City. It was the last that anyone heard from Ambrose Bierce. He vanished...