Word: mistiness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arequipa, Peru's second city, is dominated by El Misti, a 19,100-ft., snowcapped volcano, but for almost 50 years its principal attraction was "Tia" Bates...
Arequipa came to think that Tia Bates was as monumental and enduring as El Misti, but last week she was dead of uremia and old age (almost 85). Indians and whites crowded Quinta Bates to mourn. Said a weeping Quechua: "She was like charapa the land turtle-hard outside, tender inside...