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In the Rio Grande Valley, Hall's attorneys set up separate groups to assist small-business owners and residents with low-interest loans and legal representation.
The balladry of the Rio Grande border was “one of resistance against outside encroachment” (1958, 244).
The island’s most popular excursion — prettiest by boat from Marina Grande, but also possible by road northwest of Anacapri — is to the celebrated marine cave, the Blue Grotto (Grotta Azzurra), most effective (and crowded) at noon.
Nor, at the other end of the scale, can we match the Spanish superlative suffix - ísimo , e.g., grandísimo, altísimo, bellísimo (rendered in English as the `biggest,' the `highest,' the `most beautiful,' although for an exact equivalency one would use the other superlative form in Spanish, más grande, más alto, más bello ). Nothing I have ever heard in English can match the breadth of lighthearted insult expressed by a Spanish wit some years ago who used the suffix with reference to the notoriously pampered, well-connected, well-heeled, well-placed brother-in-law ( cu ñado ) of Francisco Franco.
I myself have known people named Busa , which in Salvatore Battaglia's Grande Dizionario Della Lingua Italiana (the Italian equivalent of the Oxford English Dictionary) is defined as il sterco bovino, literally, cow dung.