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Word: mister (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that could not be answered fully, even days later. When a prison official read the list of those known to have survived ("Anselmo Duran . . . Albert Garcia . . . Adolfo Lemos"), there were cries of joy from the crowd. But others missed relatives' names and begged him to check again. "Please, mister, can you please tell me if 23355 is O.K.?" asked Lorenzo Chavez, who was reciting the identification number of his brother Gilbert. No answer came back. At week's end anthropologists from the University of New Mexico were sifting through ashes in the burned buildings, looking for teeth, bones...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What Happened to Our Men? | 2/18/1980 | See Source »

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