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Word: favela (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1950
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Dried Meat is popular and well-regarded among his kind. When flush, he gives away fish and beans to favela dwellers. He dances a graceful samba. Sentimental and gallant, he has the names of his two sisters tattooed on his chest, and the names of half a dozen other girls on his-arms. He can also be masterful with the dames. Once a certain Dolores talked too much when the police were listening. Dried Meat shaved her head; everybody in the favelas thought it served her right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Man Hunt | 6/19/1950 | See Source »

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