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Word: matar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Franco's police caught up with him. In prison at Alcalá de Henares, he and the other "politicals" were forced to go to Mass. One Sunday the priest delivered a sermon on the commandment No matarás (Thou shalt not kill). The prisoners murmured and the murmur rose to a roar: "No matarás! No matarás! No matarás!" The jailers decided that Sánchez had started it and gave him four months in solitary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: Hero ('48) | 1/12/1948 | See Source »

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