Word: lima
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have many faces, many names ... you were a Vietcong girl... You told me about a god with a yellow beard whom they call Jesus Christ and he has wings and flies over the clouds and dies like a Vietcong partisan ... then your name was Padre Tito de Alencar Lima ... Captain Mauricio said to you, 'Now you will know the local office of hell.' " Those who prefer the unexamined aphorism may choose: "The bitter discovery that God does not exist has destroyed the concept of fate" or "Death is a thief that never turns up by surprise." Devotees...
...remains in excellent shape. Jogging three miles a day has brought his resting pulse beat down from 60 to 50 beats per minute. The most versatile athlete of the three candidates, Carter also likes fishing and tennis. He gets six hours sleep a night, and avoids hops, lima beans and Swiss cheese, to which he is allergic. His hemorrhoid problem appears to be inactive. He occasionally suffers shin splints from jogging...
...Paul saw squalor. He climbed up a dirt road past the wooden shacks where 20,000 squatters exist under constant threat of eviction, toward a tiny parish church that serves the favela of Vidigal. On the way, he suddenly turned aside into a three-room hovel, where Elvira Almeida Lima, caught by surprise, had yet to make her bed or clear the breakfast dishes. The Pope gently kissed the old woman and blessed her. As he left she clutched a tablecloth and buried her face in it, sobbing. When he reached the church. John Paul removed the gold ring that...
When police arrested Roberto Sandalo, 26, in Turin last April, they could hardly wait to quiz him about his activities in the terrorist Prima Lima (Front Line) group, a leftist organization second in notoriety only to the Red Brigades. Sandalo's testimony, they hoped, might enable them to catch and indict a few of his revolutionary comrades. It had a vastly greater effect. It threatened to topple the center-left coalition of Christian Democratic Prime Minister Francesco Cossiga, one of the most promising governments in Rome in many years. It transformed this week's regional and local elections...
...become the favorite of expense account auditors. New York City is only eighth on the list at $708 for a two-day visit, while Chicago ($570) and San Francisco ($567) rank 15th and 16th. The cheapest of the cities surveyed is Lima, Peru ($265). A hotel room costs just $60 a night, four theater tickets run to $12 and cigarettes are only 69? a pack. The low cost might just attract more businessmen into the llama import trade...