Word: hortencia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though the hosts were doing too much of the winning, sweet sentiments of this kind abounded. One-Woman Basketball Team Hortencia Marcari of Brazil was an object of general delight, and, venturing into the stands once to protect their flag, the Cuban boxers brought an awesome presence to the final week. It seemed everyone's Pan Am hero though, Anglo and Latin, was a lefthanded baseball pitcher born with one finger on his right hand. The University of Michigan's Jim Abbott, 19, carried the flag and led the U.S. team in the opening ceremonies at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway...
...Shreveport, La. To dramatize his appeal to the poor, Jackson has taken to sleeping some nights in their homes rather than in hotels. Last Monday he stayed with William Jarrard, an unemployed white Baltimorean who bears an ironic resemblance to Archie Bunker; Wednesday in the San Antonio home of Hortencia Cabrera, mother of 14. To call attention to industrial pollution, Jackson on Wednesday also visited the West Dallas housing project apartment of Sarah Dean, whose five-year-old daughter Africia suffers from lead poisoning believed to be caused by a nearby smelter...
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