Word: plaridel
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When his father took off, Cunanan dropped out of college and joined him briefly in the Philippines. In her court papers, his mother says he came back because he could not stand his father's living conditions. In the Philippine town of Plaridel, where Modesto lives now, he was questioned last week by Philippine police, who wanted to know if his son had tried to contact him lately. They say he insisted that his boy was not Versace's killer. "My son is not like that," the elder Cunanan told them. "He had a Catholic upbringing. He was an altar...
...covered the operation from a carabao cart, crouching low behind the swaying black rump of a carabao named Plaridel as we drove north from Manila. The sun beat down mercilessly and I wished I had brought a sun helmet. Sometimes I also wished I had brought my gas mask. And I certainly wished I had brought a pillow...
...What do you think Plaridel thinks of right-hand traffic?" I shouted over the din. ."All same," he answered...
...cavalry made it, anyhow, and it was more than their vehicles that turned the trick. At Plaridel (junction of Highways 5 and 3) the 37th piled into 500 Japs entrenched there and full of fight. It took a rousing scrap to kill 250 of them, chase off the rest. As the town was secured the cavalry drove in and rolled on. The Buckeye doughboys jeered them...
Errand of Mercy. If the Japs were set to defend Manila like Plaridel, there was trouble ahead-and the greatest danger to thousands of Allied civilians interned in Manila's prison camps. The high command was ready for that...
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