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Word: noriega (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...female proletariat. Mrs. Warren was invoked as a witness last week before the U.N.'s Social and Humanitarian Committee, which was debating a Draft Convention for the Suppression of Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others. The committee, exclaimed Mexico's Raul Noriega, must not come to share Mr. Shaw's "casuistic attitude." In a rare show of unanimity, their usually separate moral sensibilities jointly outraged, the U.S., Britain and Russia agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UNITED NATIONS: Planets in the Sky | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...other, that stones might rip his feet and the sun strike his head and his penance be more severe. Onesimo Cadena, from the sierra, walked with head bowed. He intended to ask forgiveness for being drunk in a cantina when his wife died unattended at home. Alfonso Noriega joked, laughed and wove a crown of flowers as he walked; he wanted to thank the Virgin because his store had made so much money this year. Arnulío Garcia stepped along with a pocketful of Querétaro's famed opals and his own private prayer on his lips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Pilgrimage | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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