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Word: cabeza (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...southern Spain, 80 miles from the Portuguese frontier, 1,500 Rightists who eight months ago shut themselves up in the Sanctuary of the Virgin, a convent atop Mount Cabeza, last week scaled the granite walls of their fortress to escape. They were fleeing not from the Leftist siege but from two officers of their own side, Captain Cortes and Lieutenant Ruano, who had set up a rule of military terror in the convent, throwing into musty cells the starved and sick who wanted to surrender. During the siege, 21 children were born in the Virgin's Sanctuary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Cats & Seagulls | 4/26/1937 | See Source »

...year-old brother Miguel told Detective Bazan that a bearded man had streaked out of the trees, whisked Eugenio back with him. But the most important clue of all to Argentina's press seemed to be that the nation's Public Enemy No. 1 "Pibe Cabeza" (Pin Head) Rogelio Gordillo, had been hanging around La Sorpresa in November and had robbed Father Pereyra Iraola on the road nearby. When Pin Head Gordillo was shot down by police last month, Rancher Pereyra Iraola identified a rosary in Gordillo's pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: At La Sorpresa | 3/8/1937 | See Source »

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