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  • AJO -- U.S. Border Patrol agents in Ajo confiscated nearly $400,000 in cash hidden in a vehicle.

    azfamily 2010

  • Yuca con Ajo is one of our favorite mashed vegetables and much better than mashed potatoes imo.

    Yuca recipes 2009

  • Yuca con Ajo is one of our favorite mashed vegetables and much better than mashed potatoes imo.

    Yuca recipes 2009

  • Yuca con Ajo is one of our favorite mashed vegetables and much better than mashed potatoes imo.

    Yuca recipes 2009

  • The special also included a side of the Guasacaca, Venezuela's answer to salsa de ajo or mojo de ajo (garlic sauce) the perfect accompaniment to fried root vegetables, plantains, tostones (which can also benefit from a side of hot sauce) and definitely yuca frita (Yuca al Mojo de Ajo is one of the definitive Cuban cuisine dishes no meal is ever without).

    IMBB #18: La Casa del Mojito: To Cuba and Back over Lunch 2005

  • Another often-mistaken etymology is the name Ajo in Arizona.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVI No 1 1989

  • "Ajo" I hear from the leader in response, and, granted admission, I crawl into the dark space.

    Into a realm of spirits: a Native American sweat lodge ceremony 2006

  • "Ajo" I hear from the leader in response, and, granted admission, I crawl into the dark space.

    Into a realm of spirits: a Native American sweat lodge ceremony 2006

  • Above all she avoided those twin abominations "Ajo" and "Aji," or garlic and green chilli, which Argentines cram into every dish, thus making them hideously unpalatable to Northern Europeans.

    Here, There and Everywhere Frederick Spencer Hamilton 1892

  • The mother called her child by the usual endearing pet names until her death, after which the islanders dubbed the master's son -- then toddling around in his first trousers -- "Ajo," and the name had stuck to him ever since for want of a better one.

    Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross 1887

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