Word: cabezas
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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...
...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...
...necks, contained groups of mummies sitting in circles, the chiefs holding carved wooden staffs. Headbands and other trinkets of gold; primitive pottery and "magnificent" textile remains, approximated the lost Tiahuanaco culture of the Bolivian highlands. The Paracas city was named Cerro Colorado. Not many miles away is the ancient Cabeza Larga, a city preceding the Nascan culture, which preceded the establishment of the Inca empire (circa...