Word: meats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...judge ruled that it was impossible, in a gang war, to determine whose bullet killed whom. So Dried Meat beat the murder rap, but he got six months in jail for illegal possession of arms. He served three months, then escaped through a sewer. While the press played him up as "Inimigo Público Número Um," the police unleashed Rio's most spectacular manhunt...
...favelas were combed by detectives disguised in patched rags and wooden clogs (the footgear of Rio's poor). Dried Meat's two henchmen, Smile and Fork, were caught after an exchange of gunfire in which a bystander was killed...
Last week, after nearly a month of search, the police received a phone call from Dried Meat. "This is a warning," he said. "I'm coming." Nervous authorities thought he might come shooting. Instead, a pale figure in checkered black & white sport coat, he walked up to a suburban policeman, meekly surrendered himself...
...assaults and robberies charged against him in the past month. All he wanted was to finish the jail term and take a rest. The hills of the favelas, he said, still tuckered him, and he had no place else to go. "I couldn't leave Rio," said Dried Meat, "because I would get lost...
...sick old men who flocked in. Once a butcher to whom they appealed asked: "Why don't you go to work for your living instead of coming around begging?" The question, says Brother Hance, "quite upset and embarrassed us, so we ventured to say that we would cut meat for an hour if he would beg for an hour and see which one worked the hardest. This brought a very quick response . . . with a roast of beef...