Word: corazon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minor Liberal politicians died where they fell in the plaza; one other Liberal and a policeman were slightly wounded. Echandia's brother Vicente was rushed to the Clinica del Sagrado Corazon. There, two hours later, Dario Echandia saw his brother die. The funeral was held on the day that triumphant Conservatives were electing Laureano Gómez President. Nearly 25,000 Liberals marched in the cortege, and there were excited shouts of "Down with the dictatorship!" and "To the Palace!" But nobody went to the Palace; troops and tanks had closed off the streets four blocks away...
...pretty, 26-year-old Filipino actress, Corazon Noble, began the testimony, with which the prosecution intended to prove that Japanese atrocities were part of Yamashita's plan. She had taken refuge with her ten-month-old baby in a Red Cross emergency hospital during the Battle for Manila, had been trapped there by four Japanese sailors. One had raised his rifle, fired, wounded her in the elbow. Then the Japs bayoneted...