Word: pampanga
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...Through Pampanga Province in the Philippines last week ran another tonsorial tale: to see who was king of the newly born babies, a bird and a snake had fought. The bird won, but the snake threatened to kill all babies with hair on their heads. The story traveled fast. In five towns Filipino mothers had their children's heads shaved. The barbers had never done such business...
...early hours of election day brought nervous rumors: of masked bands hijacking voting boxes in Santa Rosa; of ink poured over ballots in Cavite. And there were some bloody facts: Governor Ramon Imperial of Camarines Sur Province was wounded by gunfire; a 62-year-old Pampanga supporter of Osmena was hauled from a jeep and murdered by machine-gun fire in a rice field...
Johnny Jones & Others. One morning at dawn as last week began, 56 ships stood off Lingayen Gulf, gateway to the broad, fertile Pampanga plain leading south 120 miles between mountain ranges toward Manila. Long strategists' pick for the deadly thrust, Lingayen was heavily defended. But the Jap moved in, attempting landings on a stretch from Lingayen northward. A heavy U.S. force under Major General Jonathan M. Wainwright was waiting...
...week's end, the drive from Lingayen Gulf had been stopped and the front was stabilized. The Jap was not yet in force in Pampanga plain. Filipino and U.S. soldiers agreed that he was going to have a hell of a time entrenching himself there, a still tougher time moving south. As on the road from Baguio, the hills still hemmed him in in all his forward positions, and the country is rough, tough and thorny...