toca

• “Chivo pagado, chivo brincado" and "Musica pagada, toca mal son" are axioms which symbolize a cultural mistrust which isn't shared by very many expats living in Mexico.”

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• “The patient strangled and gasped and suffocated and, at intervals, the toca was withdrawn and he was adjured to tell the truth.”

  Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition

• “An iron prong, distended the mouth, a toca, or strip of linen was thrust down the throat to conduct water trickling slowly from a jarra or jar, holding usually a little more than a quart.”

  Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition

• “Or is the difference that they called the cloth a toca?”

  Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition

• “One technique they used, waterboarding, bears a great deal of similarity to the so-called “tormenta de toca” from the Spanish Inquisition.”

  Matthew Yglesias » No One Expects The Spanish Inquisition

• “Well, the second replied, if there is only a cold shower, toca.”

  A Cold Shower « Unknowing

• “En Guayaquil, el calor me hizo sentir a salvo hasta hace dos viernes, cuando después de un concierto me encontré con el Ministro Ricardo Patiño y hablé un par de palabras con él sobre unos proyectos (a veces te toca bailar con el diablo).”

  Global Voices in English » Ecuador: Continuing to Face the H1N1 Virus

• “Ahora nos toca a todos transformar los episodios heroicos en trabajo cotidiano, en conciencia madura para explicar lo que nos pasa hoy y el mañana al que aspiramos.”

  Global Voices in English » Puerto Rico: Public News Channel Dismantled

• “Andrea: Solo restaría aclarar que en Colombia nadie niega una realidad con la que toca convivir a diario, aquí no miramos vigas en los ojos propios, sino ojivas que los perforan, y finalmente se trata de llamar a todas las cosas por su nombre como parte de encontrar las soluciones.”

  Global Voices in English » Colombia: The Extraordinary UNASUR Meeting in Bariloche

• “The only difference, according to Mr. Murphy, is that the Inquisition "understood that the toca was torture" whereas George W. Bush did not.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Inquiring Minds Wanted to Know—or Else

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