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Word: herminia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ceaselessly through government lines with the intelligence and supplies that were oxygen for the Sierra Maestra fire. The jump-off point for most was underground headquarters in a medical laboratory in eastern Santiago, less than a mile from the government fortress. It was operated as a cover by Mrs. Herminia Santos Bush, a handsome, steely matron whose rebel doctor-husband had been forced to flee. There, under flaring skirts, the rebellion's girls donned canvas harnesses equipped with pockets, loaded themselves with messages, gun parts, radios. One day four girls, chattering gaily, drove into rebel territory with an entire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Women of the Rebellion | 1/19/1959 | See Source »

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