Word: magsaysay
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Hundreds of enthusiastic peasants, many of them barefooted, waited on an outdoor basketball court for him to appear. Dripping wet, Magsaysay borrowed a comb from a toothy young man whom he introduced as "Commander Big Boy, one of the Huks who surrendered...
Romulo was left to the comedians; the record of Quirino's Liberal Party was left to Magsaysay himself. Speaking mostly in Tagalog dialect, heaving with emotion, Magsaysay told of the 1951 murder of Politician Moises Padilla, "whose only crime was to make speeches against the administration." He told how Padilla's legs were broken, his eyes gouged out, and his tongue pierced, before he was killed by five bullets in the back. "I carried his body in my arms," shouted Magsaysay. "It was not the body of Padilla I carried, but the body of the humble people...
...Then Magsaysay went unabashedly to work building himself up as a homespun hero and as a great friend of America. Said 45-year-old Magsaysay...
Rice & Coke. With cries of Mabuhay (long live) in his ears, earnest, honest Magsaysay climbed back into his car and drove on. It was pitch dark. At several villages, the candidate and his bodyguards plodded with flashlights through inky darkness in the rain to shake hands with people. At Guagua, Magsaysay dined on chicken and rice, washed down by Coca-Cola, and told a crowd that "by coming like this among the humble people of the country, I am revolutionizing political campaigning in the Philippines . . . My policy can be summed up in one word, 'action...
...limousine headed back towards Manila, with a guard pointing a cocked carbine through the window into the rainy night, Magsaysay nervously cracked his knuckles, and predicted that he would get 60% of the votes if the election were free. He accused Quirino of hoping to stay in office by fraud and intimidation. If the election is stolen, said Magsaysay, "the Philippines will become a banana republic at the mercy of the Communists...