Word: butcher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bodegas & Charms. In the Barrio (i.e., district), the Puerto Ricans have created their own city. The store signs are in Spanish. At the bodegas (grocery stores) they sell green coconuts, chick peas and mangoes. The carnecerias (butcher shops) sell Spanish sausage, salt pork fat, chicken feet (3 Ibs. for 25?) and salted pigs' tails...
Last week the President's order was executed. The Peronista press no longer reported the doings of Deputy José Emilio Visca, for six months the butcher-boy terror of the Argentine press (TIME, Jan. 16, Feb. 6, Feb. 27). In a new list of members of the congressional committee to investigate anti-Argentine activities, the press-purging committee over which Visca had presided, his name did not appear...
...Butcher"--four miles high in the Peruvian Andes--is the vacation-time target of four Mountaineering Club students...
Several miles from Chiquian is Carnicero, Spanish for "The Butcher." The students will hire a 30-mule team to lug their ton of equipment to base camp...
From then on, Carnicero is more like a butcher's cleaver than a butcher. Wind sweeping up the sides of the mountain has stropped the thin icy sides into knifesharp razors...