Word: pila
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Even acts of foresight have backfired. When inflation sent rice costs soaring, Macapagal dispatched trucks into the barrios to sell rice at a subsidized price half that of the retail trade. The long queues, called pilas, exposed customers to broiling sun and drenching rain, and rage instead of gratitude. In a Manila cinema a newsreel of Macapagal brought boos and shouts of "Pila! Pila!" A month before the elections, the government abandoned the "rolling stores" and switched to neighborhood rationing, with the subsidized rice handled in local shops...
Hattie's scripts are written in English, but she dishes them out in purest pidgin. Sample: ''Dis program we make fo' any kind people who like sing, kani kani pila [music], talk-story. Baby can try, school chiren can try and even if you makule [old] still okay. No need be sham...
...Pedro Albizu y Campos, who was sentenced to ten years in Atlanta penitentiary after conviction for sedition.* Mayor Ormes of Ponce issued a permit. Colonel Enrique de Orbeta, insular police chief, promptly canceled it. The Nationalists announced they would parade anyhow. The paraders came in contact with police near Pila Hospital in the heart of Ponce. A shot (fired by a Nationalist, according to police) broke the Sunday afternoon calm. The police opened fire with riot and submachine guns, as well as tear gas. When the short battle ended, several thousand onlookers were scrambling to safety, 50 wounded writhed...
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