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Probably the world’s most popular cuisine, an Italian meal is a masterpiece of structure: first the appetizer antipasto, often including a protein like cheese; then the primo plata, which is pasta or rice; the secondo plata, which is meat or fish; then the dolce, which will probably include fruit.
THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010
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Probably the world’s most popular cuisine, an Italian meal is a masterpiece of structure: first the appetizer antipasto, often including a protein like cheese; then the primo plata, which is pasta or rice; the secondo plata, which is meat or fish; then the dolce, which will probably include fruit.
THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010
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Probably the world’s most popular cuisine, an Italian meal is a masterpiece of structure: first the appetizer antipasto, often including a protein like cheese; then the primo plata, which is pasta or rice; the secondo plata, which is meat or fish; then the dolce, which will probably include fruit.
THE HIGH SCHOOL REUNION DIET David Colbert 2010
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I may be wrong, but I don't think we're seeing our own municipal and state police forces having to make the same kind of plata o plomo calculations.
unknown title 2009
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Bueno pues, no soy aprista ni mucho menos es toy de parte de ningun gopbierno para mi tooooooodos son igules prometen y despues se tiran la plata y se mandan a volar a otros paises despues de gobernar.
Global Voices in English » Peru: Freezing Temperatures in Puno Result in Children Deaths 2009
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Certain other terms marked locations thought to hold metallic riches and color-coded accordingly: plata = silver [Plateros = silversmiths] oro = gold [Santa María del Oro]
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Certain other terms marked locations thought to hold metallic riches and color-coded accordingly: plata = silver [Plateros = silversmiths] oro = gold [Santa María del Oro]
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The Empire didn't have the cash, or the military muscle, to make a "plata o plomo" proposal to them like they did to the Caribbean slave holders.
Taxes, Independence, and Canada, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Certain other terms marked locations thought to hold metallic riches and color-coded accordingly: plata = silver [Plateros = silversmiths] oro = gold [Santa María del Oro]
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There was no getting around the rule written in stone -- plomo o plata, lead or silver.
The Line/La Línea 2008
sionnach commented on the word plata
according to my dictionary of lunfardo: money, fortune, shine, green, duckets (sic!), dead presidents, skrilla.
August 18, 2008