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A spelling bee word with quite a few cognates. Byssoid means filamentous. A byssus was originally the word for a ship's anchor rope. A place too deep for an anchor rope was an abyss. Ropes are (sometimes)made out of cotton, and workers making it inhale a lot of cotton dust and develop byssinosis, a lung disease called brown lung disease. Workers in sugar manufacture inhale dust of sugar cane fibers and get another brown lung disease called bagassosis.But byssus is used now mostly to describe the foot by which mussels attach to rocks.
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For at least a century, caciquism was the form through which democracy would reign in Mexico. In a land of both Spanish and Indian descent and traditions--a land of illiteracy--elective democracy was not possible. These caciques were the revolutionaries who fought against the Creole caudillos of the regular army. Thus, the birth of the conflicts between liberalism and conservatism and federalism and centralism was confirmed. The caciques and their followers supported a liberal system that gave local autonomy modeled on the federalism of the United States. They hoped to legalize their powers.
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