Word: corazon
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...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...
...pregnancy, pious, 24-year-old Mrs. Esperanza Sacramenta Rafael of Manila lay in bed gazing at a chromo of Christ pointing to his exposed, bleeding heart. Last fortnight, in a small hospital in the Tondo slum district, Mrs. Rafael gave birth to a seven-pound baby girl, named Maria Corazon (Mary Heart). The baby's heart, faintly beating, lay on her chest, outside her body. Mrs. Rafael's friends, who thronged to the hospital, stoutly maintained that the baby's condition was due to Mrs. Rafael's daily adoration of the Sacred Heart...
...like a tiny red rubber ball. Dr. Jesus Celius of the University of Santo Tomas refused to consider an operation to place her heart inside her chest. Reason: its aorta (main artery) would have to be shut off during the operation. Last week, after living seven days, little Maria Corazon died of pneumonia...