Word: ices
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Piraquas & Manure. Garbage cans line the curb, from many of them refuse spills over on to the sidewalk. A fire burns in a cluttered gutter. A honking car scatters a game of stick ball in the street. On the corner, a cart vendor sells piraguas (shaved ice flavored with colored sirup) for 3? a cup. An old woman scrambles on her hands & knees under a horse-drawn cart, scooping fresh manure into a cardboard...
Many of the dazzled kids still kept repeating the catch-phrases which their Red leaders had drilled into their heads. One Young Pioneer, as he munched cookies and licked an ice cream cone, kept mumbling: "We have come to liberate the Western sectors from capitalism...
Comfortably dressed in undershirt and shorts, the Supreme Bishop was drinking ice-cold beer in his Manila house when the official word was brought to him: the Manila Court of the First Instance had at last declared him head of the Philippine Independent Church. Tall, chain-smoking Bishop Isabelo de los Reyes promptly sent out a directive calling for a Supreme Council of Bishops in July to set about making Aglipayanism the national church of the Philippines...
...party may have to work 30 feet, below the crest of the ridge, backing tunnels through the ice and threading its way along the mountain...
Their goal is Carnicero, the highest mountain in the Americas that no one has over climbed. Its razor-sharp, windswept ice ridges have forced back the three climbing parties that tried to scale...