Word: camas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kerosene and set them on fire. Then we would call our gravedigger." A girl told how she was left alone without medical care while giving birth to her child, which then died and was buried in the ranch yard. The most feared torture was what the sisters called the cama real (royal bed), a narrow board onto which girls were placed and wrapped in barbed wire so that even the slightest movement caused a cut. Sessions on the cama real lasted for days at a time...
...telling a watchful clerk at the British European Airways counter in London that because of more convenient flight times he would have to fly Air France. But then, after thinking through the whole story of De Gaulle's act and its consequences as he wrote his report, he cama to a second-wave conclusion shared by other TIME correspondents working on the story...