The other half of the local staff was employed as interpreters, often affectionately known as 'interrupters.'

She's sharp as a tack when she wants to be and still tight as Dick's Hatband about her money.

Catarina Gloria, the well-known bull fightress, has arrived at San Luis Potosi, from Havana.

The current COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic is not the only example of how a problem originating deep inside the borders of one country can quickly spread to others. Namely, an industrial accident in Northeastern China has just released 2.53 million cubic meters of highly poisonous industrial waste into a tributary of the Sungari River. The Sungari flows into the Amur, which forms the border between the Russian Far East and Northeastern China. Many Russians as well as Chinese rely on these waters for personal consumption, food and business. The accident, which took place on March 28, has already forced some cities on the tributary of the Sungari to stop using water from this source.