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Word: cuerpo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1945-1945
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...small son of a cook in the monastery adjoining the Cathedral that the choirmaster, a Christian Brother, had been storing bombs in his cell. Irrepressible Bogotanos, recalling how another of the Brothers had been blown up last February when a bomb exploded in his pocket, dubbed the order "Cuerpo de Bomberos" (a pun, meaning either Fire Department or Bombers' Corps...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COLOMBIA: Fawkes in Bogot | 3/26/1945 | See Source »

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