Word: isabela
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...Guzman was the door still open. Eustachio had vowed that if victory came to the Popular Democratic Party, he would go and kneel before Don Luis. To finance the journey, he had sold two of his six chickens, set out from his remote western hamlet of Isabela...
...First awarded in 1815, under the patronage of St. Isabela, for loyalty in defense of Spanish possessions, now a general order of merit. Italy's Galeazzo Ciano also...
...crushed by its flailing tail, Filipinos began to think differently when the backlash of the typhoon curled back and caught northern Luzon. The fury of the storm had abated but the heavens over the three northwestern provinces of the island suddenly liquefied. Through those provinces-Nueva Vizcaya, Isabela, Cagayan-flows the Rio Grande de Cagayan, biggest river of the Philippines, due north through 200 miles of rich farming country. The typhoon passed, the rain stopped and then came calamity. The Cagayan began to rise...
...that there were 75 persons missing; 54 villages were known to be submerged; people crouching on the roofs of their houses were carried away screaming in the flood. After aerial surveys the Red Cross reported some 1,500 square miles inundated in Nueva Vizcaya, 2,000 square miles in Isabela; homeless, 80,000, missing, 1,000, known dead...