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Word: ponciano (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then without warning, in a rocky cleft 88 airline miles northeast of Manila, the mountains were rent with the splat of machine-gun fire. Mayor Ponciano Bernardo of Quezon City stood up to shout, "Doña Aurora is in our party!" A slug from a Garand rifle brought him down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Murder in the Mountains | 5/9/1949 | See Source »

Appetizer. In Los Angeles, Ponciano Pena slipped through a 13th floor jail window, was balancing on the tenth-floor ledge when he was lured in by a jailer, who remarked that dinner was served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 14, 1944 | 2/14/1944 | See Source »

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